Sold for:
$9,200
$9,200
Anthony Rehm (Bucks and Montgomery Counties Pennsylvania) Schwenkfelder watercolor and ink on paper fraktur dated 1820 for Maria Kepler with a banner over lovebirds flanking a crown, above script in pinpricked heart surrounded by an elaborate border with birds, stars, tulips, and vines with overall pinprick outlined border, retaining an elaborate half column painted and blocked corner frame, signed lower center "Anton Rehm", 12 1/2" x 7 3/4". For examples see Fraktur Writings and Folk Art Drawings of the Schwenkfelder Library Collection , pg. 232 and Pennsylvania German Fraktur of the Free Library of Philadelphia plates 372 & 373.
Auctioneer:
Pook & Pook
Date:
2005-09-10
