Lot 97
97
A CHIP-CARVED POPLAR SMOOTHING BLOCK

PENNSYLVANIA, CIRCA 1800

Details
A CHIP-CARVED POPLAR SMOOTHING BLOCK
Pennsylvania, circa 1800
Elliptical, with raised and squared long sides centering a carved stylized heart, tulip and leaves, all in a conforming carved zig-zag notched border
3 3/8in. high, 5¼in. long
Provenance
Pennypacker Auction, Reading, Pennsylvania, The Collection of Walter Himmelreich Sale, May 30 and 31, 1958, lot 42

Lot Essay

For a similar example in the Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, see Garvan, fig. 15, p. 65.
A similar smoothing block was sold in Pennsylvania German Folk Art and Decorative Arts from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Flanders Smith, June 3, 1995, lot 26.