American Furniture & Decorative Arts

738. 
     

     Carved and Painted Penguin Figure, America, probably early 20th
     century, the figure with applied tack eyes, mounted on carved wood
     rockery, (repair to one wing, minor paint wear), ht. 9 1/2 in.
     $300-500

     
     


739. 
     

     Hollow-body Canada Goose Decoy, attributed to Eugene Birdsall,
     Barnegat Bay, New Jersey, c. 1890, two-piece hollow body, lead pad
     weight impressed with monogram “ECH” and inscribed “Hunting rig of
     Ezra Hammus” and “Eugene Birdsall c. 1890,” (thin crack around neck,
     old repaint, paint losses), ht. 10, lg. 23 1/2 in.
     $800-1,200

     
     


740. 
     

     Painted Wood and Canvas Canada Goose Decoy, 20th century,
     carved and painted head and tail with canvas over frame body
     construction, (paint wear), ht. 12 1/4, lg. 29 1/2 in.
     $800-1,200

     
     


741. 
     

     Carved Coiled Wooden Snake Figure, probably, America, late 19th
     century, dark brown surface, 14 x 6 in.
     $400-600

     
     

742.

No lot.

743.

Flint Enamel Glazed Pottery Recumbent Cow Spill Vase, Lyman,

Fenton & Co., Bennington, Vermont, 1848-58, with applied “coleslaw”

foliage on shaped base, the underside with partial large circular

impressed 1849 mark, ht. 7 1/2, dia. 10 1/4 in.

Literature: Illustrated in “Fancy Rockingham” Pottery: The Modeller and

Ceramics in Nineteenth-Century America, by Diana Stradling, University

of Richmond Museums, 2005, p. 61.

$10,000-15,000

744.

Rockingham Glazed Pottery Hunt Pitcher, modeled by Daniel

Greatbatch, Bennington, Vermont, c. 1848-49, molded with grapevines

around the neck and shoulder over hunting scene with dogs, stags,

and boars, large lily of the valley to the right of the branch-form handle,

(repaired), ht. 12 in.

$200-300

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