Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2337Location: BostonDate / Time: November 04, 2006 3:00PM
Description:
Pair of Painted Leather Fire Buckets probably North Andover, Massachusetts, c. 1797, both fire buckets with "S. OSGOOD COMMON SAFETY 1797"in black lettering around an an oval cartouche centered with a polychrome painted scene of a house in a landscape, surrounded by painted scrolls, on a black ground (paint losses, replaced leather handle loop),ht. 17 in.
Note: The name of Osgood was a prominent name in the North Andover, Massachusetts, area.
Estimate $4,000-6,000