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Skinner AuctionsMarlborough MA
August 12, 2018 10:00 AMCalender
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Painted Papier-mache "Carnival Cat,"

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Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 3121MLocation: MarlboroughDate / Time: August 12, 2018 10:00AM

Description:

Painted Papier-mache "Carnival Cat," America, late 19th century, original painted surface in black with white spots, glass eyes, and a stuffed velvet tail, with an interior mechanism for animating the head and mouth, (paint losses, some cracking, minor losses, mechanism damaged),ht. 20 1/4 in.

Provenance: Lapham and Dibble Gallery, Shoreham, Vermont, August 13, 1977.

Literature: American Cat-alogue, The Cat in American Folk Art, exhibition catalog.

Exhibitions: The Cat in American Folk Art, Museum of American Folk Art, 1976.
The Arthur & Sybil Kern Collection of American Folk Art
Estimate $3,000-5,000


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Keywords

Sybil Kern, Shoreham