Important Americana: The Charles and Olenka Santore Collection

Important Americana: The Charles and Olenka Santore Collection

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Exceptional Carved and Gilt Polychrome-Paint-Decorated Pine Spread-Winged Eagle Wall Plaque, Attributed to W.H. Beal, Dated 1888

Auction Closed

January 20, 12:37 AM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Exceptional Carved and Gilt Polychrome-Paint-Decorated Pine Spread-Winged Eagle Wall Plaque

Attributed to W.H. Beal

Dated 1888


Inscribed on reverse C.S. Sept 21/88.


Height 14¼in. by Width 45 in.

Please note that this lot is offered with its original gilded ball-and-diamond flag tips.
A nearly identical eagle, signed by the carver W.H. Beal, is in the collection of Winterthur Museum (acc. no. 1959.2369).