Lot 1024
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Rare Carved and Painted Pine 'Flame of Judgment' Figure, New England, mid 19th century

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description

  • pine
  • 11 1/8 by 7 1/4 by 2 1/4 in.

Provenance

Robert Carlen, Philadelphia, 1975
Sotheby's, New York, Visual Grace: Important American Folk Art from the Collection of Ralph O. Esmerian, January 25, 2014, sale 9106, lot 653.

Exhibited

New York, American Folk Art Museum, "The Shape of Things: Folk Sculpture from Two Centuries," 1983.

Literature

American Radiance: The Ralph Esmerian Gift to the American Folk Art Museum, (New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2001), p. 352, fig. 316.

Condition

Overall very fine condition.
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