Sale 9052
New York, Park Avenue
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15 - 19 January 1999
Price realised
USD 805
Estimate
A CARVED AND PAINTED FIGURE OF A BIRD Possibly American, 19th century The full-bodied form with red-painted head and breast and yellow-painted body and tail, the crest elaborately decorated with red, yellow and black-paint decoration, the eyes and feather details picked out in black, with wire legs perched on a branch and mounted on a cylindrical support on a square base 8in. high with stand
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