Important Americana: Furniture and Folk Art

Important Americana: Furniture and Folk Art

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Various Owners

Staffordshire Large Figure of George Washington circa 1860

Lot Closed

January 21, 04:31 PM GMT

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Various Owners

Staffordshire Large Figure of George Washington


circa 1860

modeled standing, holding a tricorn hat under his left arm, and papers in his right hand, on a circular shaped base

Height 15 in.

Another example of this rare figure is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. no. 83.2.82, illustrated in P.D. Gordon Pugh, Staffordshire Portrait Figures and Allied Subjects of the Victoria Era, 1971, p. 237, pl. 22. fig. 69. The author wrote at the time of publication that the figure in the Met was the only example known to him.