A VERY RARE AND IMPORTANT CANADA GOOSE

MASSACHUSETTS OR THE LOWER SUSQUEHANNA RIVER, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A VERY RARE AND IMPORTANT CANADA GOOSE
Massachusetts or the Lower Susquehanna River, Last Quarter 19th Century
Original Paint with minor wear on the head, neck, in lower two-thirds of the decoy. Although most of the paint is missing from the back of the decoy the surface has mellowed to a very pleasing tone. There is some light wax on the back of the decoy and back of the neck.
30 in. long

来源

Adele Earnest
Stewart Gregory

出版

Adele Earnest, Folk Art In America, A Personal View (Exton, PA, 1984), pp. 130-131 (Illustrated).
Adele Earnest, The Art of the Decoy: American Bird Carvings (Exton, PA, 1982), p.8 (Illustrated).

展览

New York, Museum of American Folk Art, "The Art of the Decoy", 1966

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拍品专文

This goose is one of only three known (for related examples, see Robert Shaw,Iall to the Sky, The Decoy Collection of James M. McCleery, M.D., [Houston, 1992], p.11 and Joseph Engers, ed., The Great Book of Wildfowl Decoys [San Diego, 1990], p. 142.)

This decoy was found on the Susquehanna river in Columbia, Pennsylvania and originally believed to be from that area. A number of people believe that these decoys may have been made in Massachusetts by the same maker as the shorebirds with dovetailed necks found in that area.

The large hollow carved decoy has a removable head that dovetails into the body. The number "2" is painted on the bottom of the dovetail and on the bottom of the groove it slides into. There is a small amount of feather carving right behind the neck and a very slight ridge extending from the back to the end of the tail. There is also fluted feather carving under the tail. Originally a large brass cross piece was inserted into the underside of the decoy so it could be used as a stick up or a floater. That piece is now missing, revealing a "V" stamped into the wood.