David Stoddard Greenough, Jr.'s Paint-decorated Leather Fire Bucket

Description:

David Stoddard Greenough, Jr.'s Paint-decorated Leather Fire Bucket, fire bucket made by John Fenno, Boston, c. 1812, centered with a bowknot suspending an oval reserve painted with an erupting volcano over two banners, one inscribed "VULCANUS CEDAT NEPPUNO," the other "D.S. GREENOUGH Jr."; "No. 1" flanking the bowknot, on a brown-painted ground, black-painted collar and handle, the name "I.FENNO" impressed on either side of the back seam, (minor imperfections),ht. to collar 12 3/4 in.

Note: The depiction of a volcano, along with the year 1812, probably commemorates two volcanic eruptions occurring in 1812: Soufrier on St. Vincent Island in the Caribbean, and Awu on Sangihe Islands, Indonesia.

David Stoddard Greenough, Jr. (David S. Greenough II) (1787-1830) was the son of David S. Greenough I, and Anne (Doane). David Jr., was a member of the Harvard College class of 1805, he practiced law, served as a Justice of the Peace in Massachusetts, and was lieutenant colonel of the Boston Independent Cadets. In 1813 he married Maria Foster Doane (1793-1843),daughter of Elisha and Jane (Cutler) Doane of Wellfleet and Cohasset, Massachusetts. They resided in Jamaica Plain (Roxbury),Massachusetts, and had five children.
Estimate $4,000-6,000

The handle has a few cracks, craquelure and minor scattered small paint losses.

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