A MOLDED COPPER AND PAINT-DECORATED "LIBERTY GODDESS" WEATHERVANE

ATTRIBUTED TO BOSTON METALWORKS, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, CIRCA 1850

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A MOLDED COPPER AND PAINT-DECORATED "LIBERTY GODDESS" WEATHERVANE
ATTRIBUTED TO BOSTON METALWORKS, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, CIRCA 1850
44 in. high, 27 in. wide

Provenance

Irving H. Vogel
Parke-Bernet Galleries, March 9, 1957, lot 239

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Lot Essay

The present lot shares many of the same qualities to a weathervane ascribed to the Boston Metal Workers shop, circa 1850. (Charles Klamkin, Weathervanes, The History, Design and Manufacture of an American Folk Art (New York, 1973), p. 92). These two weathervanes are related in the molding of the arms and head, as well as the definition to the peplum skirt.

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