Cutting & Delaney Artistic Woodworkers

Buffalo, New York: Cutting & Delaney, 1885. Very good. Letter folds.. Handwritten letter on illustrated letterhead from Cutting & Delaney, discussing pricing with a potential client for the firm's specialty Japonisme-inspired woodwork, including fret work, grilles, and fine carvings, screens. The letterhead illustration and typography both showcase the company's distinct Eastern-inspired style, which was highly popular in the United States from the 1880s onward. Measures approx. 9.5" by 5.75", illustrated at head. Contemporary ink ms. to verso. Japonisme is the term for the West's renewed interest in Japanese art and design following the Meiji Restoration in 1868, when Japan ended its period of national isolation from the rest of the world.