SCULPTURAL FANTASY

More documents

Recommendations

Info

15 HIGHLY IMPORTANT AND EXCEPTIONAL ‘CROWN POINT- OLD GABRIEL’ WROUGHT SHEET IRON ANGEL GABRIEL WEATHERVANE, ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM HENRY FORSTER, CROWN POINT, NEW YORK, MADE IN 1822 Height 18 ½ in. by Length 72 ½ in. by Depth 14 in. $ 750,000-1,000,000 PROVENANCE White Church, Crown Point, New York; Giampietro American Folk Art, New Haven, Connecticut. EXHIBITED Shelburne, Vermont, The Shelburne Museum, Silhouettes in the Sky: The Art of the Weathervane, 2006. LITERATURE Randall Beach, “Stolen off a church, Gabriel weather vane surfaces after 15 years,” New Haven Register, July 3, 2005; “Silhouettes in the Sky,” Antiques and the Arts Weekly, June 13, 2006; Bethany Kosmider, “Historic weather vane sold,” Press-Republican, December 19, 2007; Lita Solis-Cohen, “Angel Gabriel Weathervane, Made by Blacksmith in 1822, Sold,” Maine Antique Digest, March 18, 2008 David Smith, “Gabriel Weathervane Sells Privately In Seven-Figure Deal,” The Newtown Bee, March 20, 2008, p. 66; Bethany Kosmider, “Weathervane returns to Crown Point church,” The Sun, June 10, 2009. 28 SOTHEBY’S THE IMPORTANT AMERICAN FOLK ART COLLECTION OF STEPHEN AND PETRA LEVIN
This iconic, nearly 200 year old, American weathervane, made of hand-hammered sheet iron into the figure of the Angel Gabriel blowing his trumpet, originally flew over the White Church in Crown Point, New York, built in 1822. It is composed of several wrought sheets of sheet iron manufactured in a mine and foundry in Crown Point, New York that produced iron used in the creation of the U.S.S. Monitor and the creation of the Brooklyn Bridge several decades later. Gabriel, one of the seven archangels, is the herald proclaiming the coming of the Messiah – here with flowing and extended lines. During the 1820’s, America was gripped by a spiritual revival known as the Second Great Awakening which stressed personal vision and salvation through Divine Grace – it was period of great religiosity in America. The weathervane flew atop the first White Church until the church was dismantled and a new church built in its spot in 1883. The vane flew again for sixty years before the second White church was struck by lightening and burned to the ground. The Gabriel vane was pulled from the ashes unscathed and placed in a barn for safe keeping until the third white church was completed on Memorial Day 1946. Shockingly this highly historical vane was stolen from White Church III on November 11, 2003. Remarkably it was subsequently found and brought back to the church in 2005. This sale marks the next step of this highly important historical American artifact. 29
Page 1: NEW YORK | 10 OCTOBER 2019 The Impo
Page 4 and 5: THIS PAGE LOT 70 (DETAIL)
Page 6 and 7: THIS PAGE LOT 72
Page 8 and 9: THIS PAGE LOT 230
Page 10 and 11: 1 VERY FINE AND RARE MOLDED FULL BO
Page 12 and 13: 2 EXCEPTIONAL MOLDED FULL BODIED SH
Page 14 and 15: 4 VERY FINE MOLDED SHEET COPPER AND
Page 16 and 17: 6 VERY RARE CARVED FULL BODIED WOOD
Page 18 and 19: 8 CAST ZINC TENNIS PLAYER WEATHERVA
Page 21: LOT 11
Page 24 and 25: 12 VERY RARE CARVED PINE AND SHEET
Page 26 and 27: 14 VERY FINE AND RARE MOLDED FULL B
Page 28 and 29: 26 SOTHEBY’S THE IMPORTANT AMERIC
Page 32 and 33: 16 VERY FINE MOLDED FULL BODIED GIL
Page 34 and 35: 19 19 FINE AMERICAN GILT MOLDED FUL
Page 36 and 37: 21 VERY FINE AND RARE GILT MOLDED S
Page 38 and 39: 23 VERY FINE MOLDED SHEET COPPER AN
Page 41 and 42: 25 VERY FINE AND RARE MOLDED FULL-B
Page 43 and 44: 28 29 28 ODD FELLOWS CARVED AND PAI
Page 45 and 46: 31 RARE MASONIC ROUND STAINED GLASS
Page 47 and 48: 35 RARE POLYCHROME PAINT-DECORATED
Page 49 and 50: 39 EXCEPTIONAL CARVED BOXWOOD AND R
Page 51 and 52: 41 CARVED AND POLYCHROME PAINTED PI
Page 53 and 54: 45 VERY FINE AND RARE AMERICAN CARV
Page 55 and 56: 48 FINE AND RARE CARVED AND POLYCHR
Page 57 and 58: 50 55
Page 59 and 60: 51 VERY FINE AND RARE CARVED PINE S
Page 61 and 62: 53 53 VERY FINE AND RARE LARGE CARV
Page 63 and 64: 61
Page 65 and 66: 56 56 VERY FINE AND RARE PATRIOTIC
Page 67: 58 58 EXCEPTIONAL LARGE CARVED AND
Page 70 and 71: 60 RARE CARVED, PARCEL GILT, AND PO
Page 72 and 73: 63 THIRTEEN-STAR AMERICAN NATIONAL
Page 74 and 75: 68 VERY FINE AND RARE AMERICAN POLY
Page 78: DETAILS OF LOT 71
Page 81 and 82:
71 79
Page 83 and 84:
72 81
Page 85 and 86:
Dowler was born in Birmingham, Engl
Page 87 and 88:
73 VERY FINE AND RARE CARVED AND PO
Page 89 and 90:
74 87
Page 91 and 92:
75 89
Page 93 and 94:
76 91
Page 95:
77 93
Page 98 and 99:
79 RARE AND IMPORTANT CARVED AND PO
Page 100 and 101:
80 VERY RARE POLYCHROME PAINT-DECOR
Page 102 and 103:
82 VERY FINE AND RARE CARVED AND PO
Page 104 and 105:
102 SOTHEBY’S THE IMPORTANT AMERI
Page 106 and 107:
85 85 VERY FINE AND RARE POLYCHROME
Page 108 and 109:
88 VERY RARE AND HISTORIC PAINTED P
Page 110 and 111:
89 EXCEPTIONAL POLYCHROME PAINT-DEC
Page 112 and 113:
90 VERY FINE CARVED, TURNED, GILTWO
Page 114 and 115:
94 VERY LARGE TURNED AND POLYCHROME
Page 116 and 117:
96 VERY FINE AND RARE AMERICAN CAST
Page 118 and 119:
100 VERY RARE GLASS AND WOOD WHIMSY
Page 120 and 121:
102 FINE AND RARE CARVED CENTENNIAL
Page 122 and 123:
104 IMPORTANT CARVED AND POLYCHROME
Page 126 and 127:
105 VERY RARE CARVED AND POLYCHROME
Page 128 and 129:
107 VERY FINE AND RARE CARVED AND P
Page 130 and 131:
Page 132 and 133:
109 VERY RARE CARVED AND POLYCHROME
Page 134 and 135:
Page 136 and 137:
111 EXCEPTIONAL CARVED AND POLYCHRO
Page 138 and 139:
Page 140 and 141:
113 VERY FINE AND RARE CARVED WOOD
Page 142 and 143:
Page 144 and 145:
PROVENANCE The artist; Estate of th
Page 146:
Page 149 and 150:
120 VERY FINE CARVED AND POLYCHROME
Page 151 and 152:
124 FINE AND RARE POLYCHROME PAINT-
Page 153 and 154:
125 151
Page 155 and 156:
Page 157 and 158:
128 155
Page 159:
129 157
Page 163 and 164:
132 POLYCHROME PAINTED WOOD WHIRLIG
Page 165 and 166:
136 CARVED AND POLYCHROME PAINT-DEC
Page 167 and 168:
140 VERY RARE POLYCHROME PAINT-DECO
Page 169 and 170:
144 145 144 VERY RARE PHRENOLOGY BA
Page 171 and 172:
148 VERY FINE AND RARE POLYCHROME P
Page 173 and 174:
152 FRENCH PAINTED-DECORATED PLASTE
Page 175 and 176:
156 FINE SET OF FIVE CARVED AND PAI
Page 177 and 178:
160 POLYCHROME PAINT- DECORATED FIN
Page 179 and 180:
163 RARE STUFFED CANVAS DONKEY CARN
Page 181 and 182:
166 IMPORTANT CARVED WILLOW WALKING
Page 183 and 184:
169 170 181
Page 185 and 186:
172 173 183
Page 187 and 188:
175 185
Page 189 and 190:
187
Page 191 and 192:
178 FINE AND RARE CARVED AND POLYCH
Page 193 and 194:
182 182 VERY FINE AND RARE POLYCHRO
Page 195 and 196:
185 186 185 FINE AND RARE CHILD’S
Page 197 and 198:
189 190 189 FINE CHILD’S BLACK AN
Page 199 and 200:
193 194 195 193 VERY FINE AND RARE
Page 201 and 202:
199
Page 203 and 204:
201
Page 205 and 206:
199 SILVERED AND ENGRAVED BRASS FIR
Page 207:
205
Page 210 and 211:
203 EXCEPTIONAL RED-PAINTED MODEL O
Page 212:
Page 215 and 216:
Page 217 and 218:
209 FINE CASE MODEL OF THE AMERICA
Page 219 and 220:
212 FINE AND RARE CARVED PINE PORTR
Page 221 and 222:
213 219
Page 223 and 224:
221
Page 225 and 226:
218 218 FINE ALUMINUM UNION PACIFIC
Page 227 and 228:
221 VERY RARE CARVED OAK BUILDER’
Page 229 and 230:
222 227
Page 231 and 232:
224 RARE POLO PLAYERS SHEET IRON WE
Page 233 and 234:
227 CARVED AND PAINTED WOOD RELIEF
Page 235:
229 233
Page 238 and 239:
Page 240 and 241:
232 238 SOTHEBY’S THE IMPORTANT A
Page 242 and 243:
235 VERY FINE AND RARE POLYCHROME P
Page 244 and 245:
238 CERAMIC BASEBALL SYRUP DISPENSE
Page 248 and 249:
How to Bid AD To Come 1. BROWSE Go
Page 250 and 251:
10. Reserve All lots in this catalo
Page 252 and 253:
of a lot. For additional informatio
Page 254 and 255:
tax liability, and Sotheby’s is n
show all

SCULPTURAL FANTASY

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?