拍品專文
The elephant bookends are one of the artist's most successful models and were cast by both the Gorham and Griffoul foundries.
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'Elephant': A Pair of Bookends
細節
Mahonri Young (1877-1957)
'Elephant': A Pair of Bookends
each, inscribed 'Young' (on the base)--numbered '39' and stamped 'GORHAM CO. FOUNDERS/Q469' (along the base)
each, bronze with brown patina
each, 5¼ in. (13.3 cm.) high
Modeled circa 1913.
'Elephant': A Pair of Bookends
each, inscribed 'Young' (on the base)--numbered '39' and stamped 'GORHAM CO. FOUNDERS/Q469' (along the base)
each, bronze with brown patina
each, 5¼ in. (13.3 cm.) high
Modeled circa 1913.
來源
Private collection, acquired circa 1970.
出版
J. Conner and J. Rosenkranz, Rediscoveries in American Sculpture: Studio Works 1893-1939, Houston, Texas, 1989, p. 186, footnote 24.
The Gorham Company, Bronze Division, Famous Small Bronzes, New York, 1928, pp. 40-1, other examples illustrated.
The Gorham Company, Bronze Division, Famous Small Bronzes, New York, 1928, pp. 40-1, other examples illustrated.