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A DIMINUTIVE CARVED AND PAINT-DECORATED INDIAN FIGURE
Lot 49

A DIMINUTIVE CARVED AND PAINT-DECORATED INDIAN FIGURE

POSSIBLY MARYLAND, 19TH CENTURY

Fermé3 October 2007

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A DIMINUTIVE CARVED AND PAINT-DECORATED INDIAN FIGURE
POSSIBLY MARYLAND, 19TH CENTURY
33½ in. high, 13 in. wide, 11½ in. deep (overall)

Helena Penrose
Parke-Bernet Galleries, Sale February 5, 1960, lot 100

Note du spécialiste

A related example to the present lot suggests that this figure was carved in Maryland and that it was originally carved with feathers to the headdress (Edwin O. Christensen Early American Wood Carving (Cleveland, 1952), p. 44, fig. 11).