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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
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Oct 10, 2019 | Sotheby's | New York | Sculptural Fantasy: The Important American Folk Art Collection of Stephen and Petra Levin | 22 | $****** - ****** | EXCEPTIONAL 'FRIENDSHIP ENGINE HOUSE' POLYCHROME PAINT-DECORATED SHEET AND WROUGHT IRON FIREMAN WEATHERVANE, ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA, CIRCA 1850 |
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133.3 x 88.9 cm (52.5 x 35 in)
Friendship Engine House, Alexandria, Virginia;
Harden de V. Pratt, Rhode Island and Virginia, 1930;
George Considine, Massachusetts;
Sotheby's, New York, Important American Folk Art from The Collection of the late Bernard M. Barenholtz, January 27, 1990, sale 5969, lot 1507;
America Hurrah, New York;
Private Collection, New York;
Olde Hope Antiques Inc., New Hope, Pennsylvania.
Jean Lipman, American Folk Art in Wood, Metal and Stone (New York: Pantheon Press, 1948), fig. 49;
Robert Bishop, American Folk Sculpture (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1974), p. 266, fig. 495;
Maine Antique Digest: The Americana Chronicles, 30 Years of Stories, Sales, Personalities, and Scandals, ed. Lita Solis-Cohen, (Philadelphia: Running Press, 2004), p. 211-5.