VERY RARE CARVED PINE AND SHEET COPPER WHALE AND SEA CAPTAIN WEATHERVANE, WESTPORT, MASSACHUSETTS, CIRCA 1850

VERY RARE CARVED PINE AND SHEET COPPER WHALE AND SEA CAPTAIN WEATHERVANE, WESTPORT, MASSACHUSETTS, CIRCA 1850

finial comprises a sheet copper ship's captain standing on a four-draw telescope standard.

Height 104 in. by Width 55 in.

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Provenance:
Made for Captain Peleg Cornell of Westport, Massachusetts;

Sotheby's, New York, The Barbara Johnson Whaling Collection, Part I, December 11-12, 1981, lot 311;

Giampietro American Folk Art, New Haven, Connecticut.