Important Americana

Important Americana

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The Collection of Robin Bradley Martin

The Guennol Carved Red-and-Black Paint-Decorated Yellow Pine Mallard Decoy, attributed to the Almy Family, Dartmouth, Massachusetts, 18th Century

Auction Closed

January 25, 06:34 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

yellow pine

height 8 in. by width 4 in. by depth 14 ¾ in.


with two stickers on underside, the first inscribed W.W., the second inscribed L.96.11/ Robin Martin.


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Winsor White, Duxbury, Massachusetts;

The Guennol Collection (Collection of Alastair Bradley Martin), and thence by descent.

New York, The Art of the Decoy, Museum of American Folk Art, 1965-1966;

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Guennol Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Alastair B. Martin, 1969-1970, cat. no. 25;

Katonah, Katonah Gallery, American Folk Art of the 18th & 19th Centuries, 1971;

Washington, D.C., Smithsonian American Art Museum, long term loan.

Adele Earnest, The Art of the Decoy, 1965, p. 13;

Hal Sorenson, Decoy Collector’s Guide, October-December 1965, p. 13;

The Guennol Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 2, New York, 1982, pp. 254-255, illus.