拍品 445
445
A CARVED AND POLYCHROME PAINT-DECORATED CIGAR STORE FIGURE OF A 'GIRL OF THE PERIOD'
A CARVED AND POLYCHROME PAINT-DECORATED CIGAR STORE FIGURE OF A 'GIRL OF THE PERIOD'
A CARVED AND POLYCHROME PAINT-DECORATED CIGAR STORE FIGURE OF A 'GIRL OF THE PERIOD'
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A CARVED AND POLYCHROME PAINT-DECORATED CIGAR STORE FIGURE OF A 'GIRL OF THE PERIOD'
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A CARVED AND POLYCHROME PAINT-DECORATED CIGAR STORE FIGURE OF A 'GIRL OF THE PERIOD'

AMERICAN, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A CARVED AND POLYCHROME PAINT-DECORATED CIGAR STORE FIGURE OF A 'GIRL OF THE PERIOD'
AMERICAN, LATE 19TH CENTURY
65 3⁄4 in. high
來源
Butterfield & Butterfield, San Francisco, 2 June 1992, lot 245
注意事項
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拍品專文

With curled hair, rosy cheeks and a fancy hat and dress, this figure of a woman is portraying the popular stereotype “Girl of the Period.” With modernization, women were moving away from domestic life and into society, and the “Girl of the Period" satirizes the fashionable women of the time who were often viewed as vain. The lady in the present lot is depicted with an exaggerated waist and bustle which is likely modeled after the satirical print The Grecian Bend. This figure could possibly have been used by a milliner or a dressmaker for advertisement. For further information and related examples see Ralph Sessions, The Shipcarvers’ Art: Figureheads and Cigar-Store Indians in Nineteenth-Century America (Princeton, 2005), pp. 162-167.

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