拍品专文
For similar walking sticks by this carver see Machmer, Just For Nice (Reading: HSBC, 1991) figs. 64, 68 and 69, p. 30.
ATTRIBUTED TO THE "BALLY" CARVER, BERKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, LATE 19TH CENTURY
细节
A CARVED AND PAINTED WALKING STICK
Attributed to the "Bally" Carver, Berks County, Pennsylvania, late 19th century
The twisting grip relief-carved with a man's face wearing an incised and tassled cap and handle-bar moustache and goatee, with incised eyes and relief-carved nose, above a tapering cylindrical stripped-branch shaft
36in. long
Attributed to the "Bally" Carver, Berks County, Pennsylvania, late 19th century
The twisting grip relief-carved with a man's face wearing an incised and tassled cap and handle-bar moustache and goatee, with incised eyes and relief-carved nose, above a tapering cylindrical stripped-branch shaft
36in. long