Live Auction 1882Important American Furniture, Folk Art and Prints Including American Folk Art From The Atwater Kent Museum Of Philadelphia
A MOLDED COPPER AND PAINT-DECORATED "LIBERTY GODDESS" WEATHERVANE
Lot 31

A MOLDED COPPER AND PAINT-DECORATED "LIBERTY GODDESS" WEATHERVANE

ATTRIBUTED TO BOSTON METALWORKS, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, CIRCA 1850

Closed3 October 2007

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A MOLDED COPPER AND PAINT-DECORATED "LIBERTY GODDESS" WEATHERVANE
ATTRIBUTED TO BOSTON METALWORKS, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, CIRCA 1850
44 in. high, 27 in. wide

Irving H. Vogel
Parke-Bernet Galleries, March 9, 1957, lot 239

Specialist note

The present lot shares many of the same qualities to a weathervane ascribed to the Boston Metal Workers shop, circa 1850. (Charles Klamkin, Weathervanes, The History, Design and Manufacture of an American Folk Art (New York, 1973), p. 92). These two weathervanes are related in the molding of the arms and head, as well as the definition to the peplum skirt.