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
VERY FINE AND RARE MOLDED AND CAST FULL-BODIED GILT COPPER STAG WEATHERVANE, ATTRIBUTED TO A.L. JEWELL & CO., WALTHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, CIRCA 1870
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January 25, 10:08 PM GMT
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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VERY FINE AND RARE MOLDED AND CAST FULL-BODIED GILT COPPER STAG WEATHERVANE, ATTRIBUTED TO A.L. JEWELL & CO., WALTHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, CIRCA 1870
Height 28 in. by Length 25 in. by Depth 6 in.
Stephen Score, Boston, Massachusetts.
Pictured on the front of A.L. Jewell’s 1866 brochure, this small and graceful deer is one of his finest designs and a vanishingly rare model. Jewell (1821-1867) opened a metal casting and repair shop in Waltham in 1852 and originally created everything from candy-making tools to hat trees before becoming a specialist in weathervanes in the early 1860s. By the time of his tragic death in a fall from a collapsed scaffold in June 1867, he was advertising seventy-eight varieties of vanes.