A CARVED AND PAINTED WOOD FIGURE

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A CARVED AND PAINTED WOOD FIGURE
AMERICAN, 19TH CENTURY

The full bodied carved man painted on one side with black-painted hair, eyebrows, eyelashes, and moustache with blue-painted eyes, red lips, white teeth and protruding triangular nose, above a body with green-painted uniform with black belt and sash, on two legs with blue-painted pants and stump feet, on a rectangular wood double base lacking arms--67in. high, 15in. wide, 4in. deep
Provenance
Edith Gregor Halpert
Sotheby's New York, November 15, 1973, lot 302
Laynela Willow, Easton, Connecticut, November 1980