ERNST KIRSCH, LATE 19TH CENTURY

Details

A CARVED PINE ABSTRACT 'SKELETAL' ROCKING HORSE
ERNST KIRSCH, LATE 19TH CENTURY
stamped E.KIRSCH/ PATENT APPLIED FOR on head
25 3⁄4 in. high, 18 1⁄4 in. wide 48 1⁄2 in. deep

Provenance

Ricco Johnson Gallery, New York
Acquired from above, February 1983

Literature

Peter Goodman, Notebook, no. 785.

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Lot Essay

On 19 December 1871 Ernst Kirsch applied for patent #121,945 for this unique rocking horse. Only a few examples of this form are known, and a similar example can be seen in Bernard Barenholtz and Inez McClintock, American Antique Toys (New York, 1980).

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