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
PROPERTY OFFERED WITHOUT RESERVE
VERY FINE FULL-BODIED CAST-IRON FORMAL HORSE WEATHERVANE, CIRCA 1890
Auction Closed
January 25, 10:08 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
VERY FINE FULL-BODIED CAST-IRON FORMAL HORSE WEATHERVANE, CIRCA 1890
the entirety supported on a later iron stand.
Height 27 ½ in. by Length 37 ½ in. by Depth 5 ½ in.
Skinner, Bolton, American Folk Art, Decorative Arts & Furniture: The Collection of Marna Anderson, March 21, 1998, sale 1831;
Stephen Score, Boston, Massachusetts.
Cast-iron vanes of this distinctive form have long been attributed to “Rochester Iron Works, Rochester, New Hampshire,” but extensive research has not found any such company nor for that matter any nineteenth-century firm known to have advertised or produced weathervanes in New Hampshire. The vanes have two-piece cast-iron bodies with sheet metal tails inserted between the body halves. The horses have been found in six different sizes, ranging from this example’s twenty-seven inches height down to fourteen inches.