AMERICAN, MID 19TH CENTURY

This dynamic weathervane, depicting the Huntress Diana on horseback killing a tiger, is a superlative example without parallel. Other varieties of this design include an Indian on horseback and a particularly English example of Saint George Slaying the Dragon. Diana examples are extremely rare and related full-bodied examples have not been found; a two-dimensional version of an Indian on Horseback killing a lion is in the collection of the Shelburne Museum, illustrated in Charles Klamkin, Weather Vanes, the History, Design, and Manufacture of an American Folk Art (New York, 1973), p. 162.