A CARVED AND POLYCHROME PAINT-DECORATED CAROUSEL OSTRICH
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF LARRY & GAIL FREELS
A CARVED AND POLYCHROME PAINT-DECORATED CAROUSEL OSTRICH

DENTZEL CAROUSEL COMPANY (ACTIVE 1867-1928), GERMANTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, CIRCA 1900-1910

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A CARVED AND POLYCHROME PAINT-DECORATED CAROUSEL OSTRICH
DENTZEL CAROUSEL COMPANY (ACTIVE 1867-1928), GERMANTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, CIRCA 1900-1910
Overall 64 1/2 in. high, 10 1/2 in. wide, 44 in. long
Provenance
Edgewater Park Carousel, Detroit, Michigan

Lot Essay

For a similar example, see Charlotte Dinger, Art of the Carousel (New Jersey, 1993), p. 200. Other Dentzel Ostriches are in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Heritage Museums and Gardens, Sandwich, Massachusetts.

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