Folk Art Animated Figural Whirligig

Description:

Folk Art Animated Figural Whirligig, Maine, late 19th/early 20th century, polychrome painted carved wood and sheet metal, the rotating red and white striped propeller animates the twenty-four carved articulated wooden figures mounted on a lozenge-shaped platform, supported on a wood column and base, total ht. 63 1/2, wd. 24, lg. 42 in.

Provenance: Hoffman estate, Maine.
Estimate $1,500-2,500

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