Sold for:
$1,722
$1,722
Folk Art Shadow Box Depicting a Bearded Man Reading, America, 19th century, the seated figure wearing a robe and with a feather beard, surrounded on three sides by an assemblage of seeds, shells, and hulls, in a period molded shadow box frame, (minor losses), ht. 5 1/4, wd. 5, dp. 1 3/4 in. Provenance: Collection of the late Robert Thayer. Note: An old auction catalog entry for an engraving of the Quaker Benjamin Lay is affixed to the reverse.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2014-10-26
