Lot Essay
A related example attributed to Willoughby Smith, Womelsdorf, Berks County, Pennsylvania, circa 1865-1880 is in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and illustrated in Garvan, The Pennsylvania German Collection (The Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1982, fig. 120); and other fish mold is in the collection of The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, accession number 79.900.10