Sculptural Fantasy: The Important American Folk Art Collection of Stephen and Petra Levin
Sculptural Fantasy: The Important American Folk Art Collection of Stephen and Petra Levin
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October 10, 05:49 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
VERY FINE MOLDED FULL BODIED GILT SHEET COPPER AND ZINC HACKNEY HORSE WEATHERVANE, DUBUQUE, IOWA, CIRCA 1880
Height 47 in. by Width 34 in. by Depth 8 in.
originally was placed on a barn owned by Russel J. Mulgreu of Dubuque, Iowa;
removed to the Farber Family coach house in Dubuque, Iowa;
Allan Katz, Woodbridge, Connecticut.
The hackney horse originated in late-eighteenth-century England and became popular as a driving horse in the nineteenth century, when roads improved and light carriages replaced coaches pulled by heavier horses. Hackneys, which were known for their high-stepping gait, proved to be strong and graceful trotters, capable of covering sixty miles in a day, and many boatloads of the breed were shipped to the US in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-centuries.