19TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY NORTH AMERICAN

Details

A RARE PAINTED MOULDED COPPER WEATHERVANE MODELLED AS A WHALE
19TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY NORTH AMERICAN
The sheets of rivetted copper over a wood carcase, old layers of paint to surface, later stand
33 in. (84 cm.) long

Provenance

With Yale R. Burge, Antiques, New York, 24 October 1974

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Lot Essay

A similar weathervane is illustrated in Adele Earnest, Folk Art In America, A Personal View, (Exton, PA, 1984), p.24
and was sold Christie's, New York, 19 January 2007, lot 434,

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