HERSCHELL CAROUSEL COMPANY, NORTH TONAWANDA, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1920

Details

A CARVED PAINTED AND GILDED CARNIVAL LOOKING GLASS
Herschell Carousel Company, North Tonawanda, New York, circa 1920
The ovoid form centering a circular glazed panel flanked by pierced, carved and gold and red-painted tendrils and eagles heads
18½in. high, 62in. wide

Provenance

Fred and Mary Fried
Sotheby's New York, Important American Furniture, Folk Art and Related Decorative Arts, 21 October 1983, lot 20

Lot Essay

The looking glass illustrated here may have been used as decoration either on a carousel apparatus or on circus and carnival wagons. For illustrations of possibly related forms, see Fried, Artists in Wood, (New York, 1970), p. 94, fig. 68 and p. 205, fig. 183.

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