VERY FINE AND RARE CARVED AND POLYCHROME PAINT-DECORATED PINE SCULPTURE OF A BUST OF A MAN WITH CROSSED ARMS, PROBABLY BY A MILLERITE, NEW YORK OR VERMONT, CIRCA 1840

VERY FINE AND RARE CARVED AND POLYCHROME PAINT-DECORATED PINE SCULPTURE OF A BUST OF A MAN WITH CROSSED ARMS, PROBABLY BY A MILLERITE, NEW YORK OR VERMONT, CIRCA 1840

The carving is in sections, each having numerous small vertical holes, possibly to hold rolled disks of paper on which were written Biblical verses. Inscribed babylon, Media, ersra, Grecion.

Height 14 in. by Width 6 ¼ in. by Depth 5 in.

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Provenance:
Harvey and Rosalyn Pranian;

Allan Katz, Woodbridge, Connecticut.