Lot 118
  • 118

Charles Schreyvogel 1861-1912

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • Charles Schreyvogel
  • The Last Drop
  • inscribed Copyrighted 1903 by Chas Schreyvogel with the Roman Bronze Works N-Y- foundry mark and numbered No. 77 beneath the base
  • bronze, brownish-green patina
  • height: 12 in.
  • (30.5 cm)

Provenance

Lewis Ketcham Sillcox
By descent in the family to the present owner (his grandson)

Literature

James D. Horan, The Life and Art of Charles Schreyvogel: Painter-Historian of the Indian Fighting Army of the American West, New York, 1969, p. 27, illustration of another example fig. 39
Paul Rossi and David Hunt, The Art of the Old West, New York, 1971, illustration of another example p. 230
Patricia Janis Broder, Bronzes of the American West, New York, 1974, p. 205, illustrations of other examples in color pp. 203-204

Condition

Good condition, uneven surface patina.
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