STAMPED WM. DEMUTH (1835-1911) & COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A POLYCHROME-PAINTED CAST METAL CIGAR STORE INDIAN
Stamped Wm. Demuth (1835-1911) & Company, New York City, late 19th century
Modelled in the round as an Indian Chief, standing contrapasto on a rocky plinth with feather head-dress, red-painted cape, bear-claw
necklace and yellow and tan-painted loin-cloth and fringed pants,
repainted, missing quiver and bow, repairs to one leg
70½in. high, 21in. wide, 23in. deep

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拍品專文

William Demuth (1835-1911) operated a manufactory of "Smokers' Articles," including cigar store figures, at various addresses in lower Manhattan. The company produced and imported figures in both wood and cast metal, ranging in a variety of forms from the Indian illustrated here to medieval royalty, contemporary military, and various Chinese figures. An illustrated catalogue of Demuth's figures shows the Indian seen here decribed as "Indian Chief, No. 53 $175" (see Fried, Artists in Wood: American Carvers of Cigar-Store Indians, Show Figures and Circus Wagons (New York, 1970), p. 54). This model of cast metal Indian was exhibited by Demuth in the Agricultural Hall of the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

For further information, see Fried, pp. 32-61. For an identical figure called "Longfellow's Indian," see Pendergast and Ware, Cigar Store Figures (Chicago, 1953), p. 52.