A GLAZED REDWARE FISH MOLD

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A GLAZED REDWARE FISH MOLD
AMERICAN, MID/LATE 19TH CENTURY

The crescent form molded with eyes, fish scales and fluted fins on a footed base--11¾in. long

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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