A CARVED AND PAINTED SIGN
A CARVED AND PAINTED SIGN

PORTSMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE, CIRCA 1880

细节
A CARVED AND PAINTED SIGN
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, circa 1880
Rectangular and centering a relief-carved gold-painted spreadwing eagle above a cannon-ball pile set within a painted ocean-side fortress diorama with additional applied relief-carved cannon and shot, all within a rectangular frame, the top set with two rows of gold-painted stars
22½in. high, 42½in wide, 3in. deep
来源
Richard Yeakel Antiques, 1986.
出版
Los Angeles Antiques Show, 1982 (cover).

拍品专文

According to tradition, this carved sign hung at the Portsmouth Naval Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.