Carved and Painted Baby in a Chair Figure

Description:

Carved and Painted Baby in a Chair Figure, possibly Upstate New York, late 19th century, the child depicted wearing a white gown seated in an armchair with details carved to represent wicker, with custom base, ht. 12 3/4, wd. 8, dp. 8 in.

Provenance: Found in Upstate New York; Edmund L. Fuller American Folk Sculpture, Woodstock, New York, 1981; sold and subsequently reacquired by the Batens.

Literature: Illustrated in Roger Ricco and Frank Maresca, American Primitive (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988),p. 10, fig. 1.
The Marvill Collection
Estimate $5,000-7,000


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