$3,042
Ehre Vater Artist(Carolinas, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, active 1782-1828) - Taufschein, hand-drawn watercolor and ink on laid paper inscribed "Ehre Vater und Mutter" (Honor father and mother), made for Johannes Reichert, Bucks County, Springfield Township, Pennsylvania, dated 1796, with yellow and red script over a red, yellow, and green compass design, all intertwined with trailing vines and flowers, 15 1/2" x 13". Pictured in Fraktur Writings or Illuminated Manuscripts by Dr. Donald A. Shelley, plate 206. For similar examples, see The Pennsylvania German Fraktur of the Free Library of Philadelphia , plates 40, 360, and 363. Artist information can be found in The Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts in an article by John Bivins, Jr. titled Fraktur in The South: An Itinerant Artist .
Auctioneer:
Pook & Pook
Date:
2004-10-08
