A New Dimension of Tradition: Important American Folk Art, Proceeds of the Sale to Benefit a New Folk Art Initiative at the Museum of Replica Handbags s, Boston

A New Dimension of Tradition: Important American Folk Art, Proceeds of the Sale to Benefit a New Folk Art Initiative at the Museum of Replica Handbags s, Boston

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 1433. EXCEPTIONAL MOLDED COPPER LEAPING HORSE WEATHERVANE, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, CIRCA 1860.

EXCEPTIONAL MOLDED COPPER LEAPING HORSE WEATHERVANE, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, CIRCA 1860

Auction Closed

January 25, 10:08 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 USD

Lot Details

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EXCEPTIONAL MOLDED COPPER LEAPING HORSE WEATHERVANE, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, CIRCA 1860


Height with base 30 ½ in., Height 26 in. by Length 36 in.


Christie's New York, The Collection of Kendra & Allan Daniel, January 20, 2001, sale 9686, lot 482;

Stephen Score, Boston, Massachusetts.

Several vanes of this dynamic early form are known. They have been mistakenly attributed to A.L. Jewell of Waltham, Massachusetts, but he did not make vanes with drilled eyes nor does this design appear in any of his brochures or broadsides.