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Fine Carved and Painted Pine Ship's Bust Portrait Figurehead, American circa 1850
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
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Description
- pine
- height 15 in. ; width 11 in.
Finely carved features, dark hair and green diadem; mounted against a leaf-carved scroll; on an oblong base.
Bears a Nina Fletcher Little "jelly label" inscribed in her hand: Figurehead from Rockland, Maine. Said to have come from a fisherman's.
Bears a Nina Fletcher Little "jelly label" inscribed in her hand: Figurehead from Rockland, Maine. Said to have come from a fisherman's.
Provenance
Mary Allis, Southport, Connecticut, 1949
Sotheby's New York, The Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little Collection, Part I, January 29, 1994, sale 6526, lot 209
Exhibited
Salem, Massachusetts, Peabody Museum, New England on Land & Sea An Exhibition from the Collection of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little, June 9-September 7, 1970, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, p. 21, no. 73;
Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, Carved and Painted: New England Country Arts from the Collection of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little, September 25, 1984-February 17, 1985.
Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, Carved and Painted: New England Country Arts from the Collection of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little, September 25, 1984-February 17, 1985.