Lot Essay
This sculpture is inscribed on its base, brought by John Hand from Delaware 1885.
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PROBABLY DELAWARE, LATE 19TH CENTURY
Details
A CARVED AND PAINTED STOCKADE SCENE
Probably Delaware, late 19th century
On two levels joined by a ladder, the upper depicting two prisoners in a stockade above a third prisoner attached to a whipping post and flanked by two guards, inscribed below Delaware Justice
16in. high
Probably Delaware, late 19th century
On two levels joined by a ladder, the upper depicting two prisoners in a stockade above a third prisoner attached to a whipping post and flanked by two guards, inscribed below Delaware Justice
16in. high
Provenance
Sotheby's New York, Important American Folk Art from the Collection of the Late Bernard M. Barenholtz, 27 January 1990, lot 1680