Americana, Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Chinese Export and Prints
Americana, Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Chinese Export and Prints
Property of a Distinguished New York Collector
Very Fine American Gilded Metal Fish Monger's Trade Sign, Late 19th or Early 20th Century
Lot Closed
January 24, 08:00 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property of a Distinguished New York Collector
Very Fine American Gilded Metal Fish Monger's Trade Sign
Late 19th or Early 20th Century
Height 23 1/2 in. by Width 47 in. by Depth 8 1/2 in.
Sotheby's, New York, Important Americana, October 4, 2007, sale 8323, lot 158.
According to The Decorative Arts and Crafts of Nantucket (Charles H. Carpenter, Jr., Dodd, Mead, and Co., New York, 1987, p. 203), codfish trade signs and weathervanes are specific to Massachusetts-particularly in the coastal areas of Massachusetts and Nantucket. A similar weathervane is illustrated and discussed in Robert Bishop, Judith Reiter Weissman, et. al., Folk Art (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1983), fig. 179, 180.