Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2567BLocation: BostonDate / Time: November 05, 2011 10:00AM
Description:
Half Plate Ambrotype of a Gothic Cottage with a Boy and Dog Sitting on the Porch, in a black "American Country Life-Summer's Evening" and "Geometric Scroll" (Krainik 8, 15) Union case, (lines of lacquer loss, case bowed).
Estimate $600-800
Lines of lacquer loss, with sparse (as opposed to fine) craquelure appearance; case bowed, two corners each with a small crack.