拍品 75
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A FEDERAL INLAID MAHOGANY SERPENTINE SIDEBOARD
Property from the Collection of the late John R. Williams
A FEDERAL INLAID MAHOGANY SERPENTINE SIDEBOARD

NEW YORK, 1790-1810

细节
A FEDERAL INLAID MAHOGANY SERPENTINE SIDEBOARD
NEW YORK, 1790-1810
38 in. high, 73 ½ in. wide, 27 ½ in. deep
来源
Descended in the Goodrich and Walker families of Schenectady, New York Ginsburg and Levy, New York, 1974

拍品专文

The small, soft, cone-shaped liberty cap originated in ancient times, when it was worn by freed slaves as a sign of their freedom. In the eighteenth century, it was a popular symbol in both the United States and France, where it came to symbolize post-Revolutionary War America and the French Revolution. It is usually depicted on the head of the Liberty Goddess or, as in this example, on the top of a pole.