Artist Unknown, American, Early 20th Century
Two Men Sawing Ice
paint on metal and carved wood
16 in. high, 10 ¼ in. wide, 4 ½ in. deep
Provenance
America Hurrah, New York
Literature
America Hurrah, advertisement, The Magazine Antiques (December 1984), p. 1340. Roger Ricco and Frank Maresca, American Primitive: Discoveries in Folk Sculpture (New York, 1988), pp. 130-131, fig. 179.
Lot Essay
This piece was discovered in Massachusetts, and may be part of a whirligig or crank toy.
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