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Running Horse Weathervane

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

1850-1899

GUSN

GUSN-3119

Description

Weathervane of a silhouette of a wooden horse carved in the round. Weathervane has its original paint. Black eye, mane and tail and brown body. Original turned wooden pole.

Details

Descriptive Terms

weathervanes
iron (metal)
lead (metal)
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
weathervanes
Pine
Lead
Iron
Painted
Horse
Weather Vane
Weathervane

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

16 1/2 x 28 1/4 x 7/8 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.1619AB

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