Lot 457
457
A CARVED AND POLYCHROME PAINT-DECORATED CIGAR STORE FIGURE OF A 'HIGHLAND LASSIE'
A CARVED AND POLYCHROME PAINT-DECORATED CIGAR STORE FIGURE OF A 'HIGHLAND LASSIE'
A CARVED AND POLYCHROME PAINT-DECORATED CIGAR STORE FIGURE OF A 'HIGHLAND LASSIE'
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Please note this lot will be moved to Christie’s F… Read more PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF GARY DUBNOFF
A CARVED AND POLYCHROME PAINT-DECORATED CIGAR STORE FIGURE OF A 'HIGHLAND LASSIE'

AMERICAN, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A CARVED AND POLYCHROME PAINT-DECORATED CIGAR STORE FIGURE OF A 'HIGHLAND LASSIE'
AMERICAN, LATE 19TH CENTURY
84 in. high
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Please note this lot will be moved to Christie’s Fine Art Storage Services (CFASS in Red Hook, Brooklyn) at 5pm on the last day of the sale. Lots may not be collected during the day of their move to Christie’s Fine Art Storage Services. Please consult the Lot Collection Notice for collection information. This sheet is available from the Bidder Registration staff, Purchaser Payments or the Packing Desk and will be sent with your invoice.

Lot Essay

For an addtional example of the rare "Highland Lassie" form see Ralph Sessions, The Shipcarvers’ Art: Figureheads and Cigar-Store Indians in Nineteenth-Century America (Princeton, 2005), p. 152.

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