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RARE DOUBLE-WHEELED HORSE AND SULKY WEATHERVANE

Creator: Harris & Co.
Offered by: Jeffrey Tillou Antiques

Description
Harris and Co, Boston, Massachusetts, ca. 1875.
Full body molded copper, copper tubing, iron spokes
Over-all in fine condition, replaced front ball finial, exceptional verdigris surface with traces of original gilt.
Provenance: Steve Miller, New York. Edmund I. Fuller, Woodstock, New York. Thomas J. Rizzo, New York. Important Americana, Sotheby’s, 1988. Private Collection of Robert Walin, Woodbury, CT.
This rare double-wheeled sulky being pulled by a running horse with a seated driver captures both form and movement. The fine detailing of the molded copper is complimented with an exceptional surface.
Literature: Steve Miller, The Art of the Weathervane, Exton, 1984, p. 135 and in a reproduced page from the Harris and Co. catalogue, p. 19.

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Period:	19th Century
Styles / Movements:	Americana, Traditional
Dealer Reference #:	FA-WV 293
Incollect Reference #:	631423

Dimensions

W.	49.5 in;	H.	24.5 in;	D.	8.5 in;
W.	125.73 cm;	H.	62.23 cm;	D.	21.59 cm;

Message from Seller:

Jeffrey Tillou Antiques was established in 1992. The three story historic building located “on the green” in Litchfield, features an extensive inventory of Americana from the 18th and early 19th centuries. Here you will find an extraordinary collection of furniture, folk art, weathervanes, sculpture, Oriental carpets, and related decorative pieces as well as distinctive European furniture and original works of art.

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