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A CARVED AND POLYCHROME-PAINT DECORATED RABBIT CAROUSEL FIGURE
Lot 482 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF BARBARA L. GORDON

A CARVED AND POLYCHROME-PAINT DECORATED RABBIT CAROUSEL FIGURE

ATTRIBUTED TO DENTZEL CAROUSEL COMPANY (ACTIVE 1867-1928), POSSIBLY SALVATORE CERNIGLIARO (1879-1974) GERMANTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Closed21 January 2022

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A CARVED AND POLYCHROME-PAINT DECORATED RABBIT CAROUSEL FIGURE
ATTRIBUTED TO DENTZEL CAROUSEL COMPANY (ACTIVE 1867-1928), POSSIBLY SALVATORE CERNIGLIARO (1879-1974) GERMANTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, EARLY 20TH CENTURY
40 in. high, 50 in. wide, 10 in. deep

Eden Galleries, Salem, New York
Skinner's, Inc., Bolton, 12 August 2001, lot 239
David Wheatcroft, Westborough, Massachusetts
Donald Watkins, Washingtonville, Ohio
Private Collection
Christies's, New York, 20 January 2012, lot 278

Specialist note

Salvatore Cernigliaro is credited with introducing the rabbit and other menagerie animals after the carousel jumping mechanism was invented. For more information on Dentzel see Richard Miller, Avis Berman, Cynthia G. Falk, Lisa Minardi and Ralph Sessions, A Shared Legacy: Folk Art in America (Alexandria, 2014), p. 220.