08-09-201408-09-2014
Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsMarlborough MA
August 9, 2014 10:00 AMCalender
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Cast Iron George Washington "Dumb Stove" Figure

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$8,610$7,000
Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2744MLocation: MarlboroughDate / Time: August 10, 2014 10:00AM

Description:

Cast Iron George Washington "Dumb Stove" Figure, J.L. Mott Iron Works, New York, c. 1870, the draped standing figure holding a document in his left hand, ht. 47 3/4 in.

Literature: Similar examples of "dumb stoves" (a stove with no opening in the room in which it is used),are in the collection at Winterthur and at Colonial Williamsburg. The Williamsburg example is illustrated and discussed in Deborah Harding's Stars and Stripes: Patriotic Motifs in American Folk Art (Rizzoli, New York, 2002),p. 231. Another was in the Harold Corbin Collection of American Iron, which was exhibited at the Shelburne Museum in Vermont in the summer of 1988.
Estimate $2,000-3,000


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Keywords

Deborah Harding, Stars and Stripes, Shelburne Museum, Vermont