
Auction Closed
January 25, 06:44 PM GMT
Estimate
300 - 500 USD
Lot Details
Description
FINE LEATHER AND WOOD BRASS-MOUNTED POLYCHROME-PAINT DECORATED BELLOWS, NEW ENGLAND, CIRCA 1800
decorated with a yellow house and neighboring village.
Length 18 in.
Nathan Liverant & Son, Colchester, Connecticut;
Sotheby's New York, American Folk Art and Furniture formerly in the Collection of Daphne Farago, sold for the Benefit of the Rhode Island School of Design, February 2, 1991, sale 6133, lot 1270;
Wayne Pratt American Antiques, Marlboro, Massachusetts.
The Farago Americana Collection, Catalogue, p. 49, fig. 31.
A closely related example is illustrated in Dean A. Fales, Jr., American Painted Furniture, 1680-1880, (New York: Dutton, 1972), p. 206, fig. 332.