A New Dimension of Tradition: Important American Folk Art, Proceeds of the Sale to Benefit a New Folk Art Initiative at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
A New Dimension of Tradition: Important American Folk Art, Proceeds of the Sale to Benefit a New Folk Art Initiative at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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VERY FINE AND LARGE AMERICAN MOLDED SHEET-COPPER AND ZINC COW WEATHERVANE, CIRCA 1880
Auction Closed
January 25, 10:08 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
VERY FINE AND LARGE AMERICAN MOLDED SHEET-COPPER AND ZINC COW WEATHERVANE, CIRCA 1880
Height including stand 67 in., Height 30 in. by Length 41 in.
Stephen Score, Boston, Massachusetts.
A very similar weathervane is illustrated in David P. Curry, An American Sampler: Folk Art from the Shelburne Museum, (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1987) p. 123, plate 69. A related vane is illustrated in Roger Ricco and Frank Maresca, American Primitive, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988) p. 111, fig. 145.