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Polychrome watercolor of bird on a tree branch, mound with foliage, and fence in foreground; body of bird composed of feathers; glazed; wooden frame with gilt and gesso mat/liner.
collages (visual works)
feather (material)
ink
paper (fiber product)
watercolor (paint)
wood (plant material)
feather (material)
Picture
Picture, Animal
Feather
Ink
Unidentified Paper
Watercolor
Picture, Animal
Indecipherable chalk inscription on back.
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
China
11.563 x 9.5 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.373
Possibly
Possibly
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