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COLUMBIA PRINTING PRESS, PHILADELPHIA, 1813
Details
A BLACK-PAINTED CAST-IRON EAGLE COUNTERWEIGHT
Columbia Printing Press, Philadelphia, 1813
Cast in the full round with articulated eyes, beak, feathered spreadwinged body, knuckled talons holding a branch and cornucopia, all above an integral cylindrical base, on a rectangular stand
21in. high, 17in. wide, 4in. deep
Columbia Printing Press, Philadelphia, 1813
Cast in the full round with articulated eyes, beak, feathered spreadwinged body, knuckled talons holding a branch and cornucopia, all above an integral cylindrical base, on a rectangular stand
21in. high, 17in. wide, 4in. deep
Literature
Wendy Cooper, Classical Taste in America 1800-1840 (New York, 1993), p. 193, fig. 148.