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A Fine and Rare New York Carved Pine Sternboard with Portrait Bust of Daniel Webster, The Whaling Ship Daniel Webster, Sag Harbor, New York circa 1847
Estimate
25,000 - 75,000 USD
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Description
- Height 31 3/8 in. by Width 21 1/4 in. by Depth 8 1/2 in.
a bust portrait of Webster carved in the half-round, wearing a blue-painted jacket and black tie, on a leaf-carved base. Restorations to the nose and lip.
Provenance
Sotheby's, New York, The Barbara Johnson Whaling Collection, Part I, December 11 and 12, 1981, sale no. 4758, lot 506.
Exhibited
The Museum of American Folk Art, New York, Hunt for the Whale, 1967
Literature
Holly Solomon and Alexandra Anderson, Living With Art, (New York: Rizzoli International, 1988), p. 96
Catalogue Note
The ship Daniel Webster of Sag Harbor, New York was built in 1833 and made a number of whaling voyages to the Pacific before being re-fitted to carry passengers to the California gold fields in 1848. This was her sternboard figure, a rarely used cunterpart of the figurehead.