A CARVED AND PAINTED FIGURE OF A TURTLE

AMERICAN, 19TH CENTURY

细节

A CARVED AND PAINTED FIGURE OF A TURTLE
American, 19th century
The full-bodied form with abstracted head and arched neck joined to a black-painted hollow-carved shell decorated with white-painted dot-decoration and leather tail, on chamfered legs
4in. high, 9in. long

出版

Gordon, Masterpieces of American Folk Art (Lincroft, New Jersey, 1975).

展览

Lincroft, New Jersey, Monmouth Museum, "Masterpieces of American Folk Art," September 30-November 29, 1975.

拍品专文

A similar carved and painted turtle is in the collection of the Museum, of American Folk Art and is illustrated in Hartigan, Made with Passion: The Hemphill Folk Art Collection in the National Museum of American Art (Washington, D.C., 1990), p. 13, fig. 12.