ATTRIBUTED TO DENTZEL CAROUSEL COMPANY (ACTIVE 1867-1928), POSSIBLY SALVATORE CERNIGLIARO (1879-1974) GERMANTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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A CARVED AND POLYCHROME-PAINT DECORATED RABBIT CAROUSEL FIGURE
ATTRIBUTED TO DENTZEL CAROUSEL COMPANY (ACTIVE 1867-1928), POSSIBLY SALVATORE CERNIGLIARO (1879-1974) GERMANTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, EARLY 20TH CENTURY
40 in. high, 50 in. wide, 10 in. deep

Provenance

Eden Galleries, Salem, New York
Skinner's, Inc., Bolton, 12 August 2001, lot 239
David Wheatcroft, Westborough, Massachusetts
Donald Watkins, Washingtonville, Ohio
Private Collection
Christies's, New York, 20 January 2012, lot 278

Literature

Richard Miller, Avis Berman, Cynthia G. Falk, Lisa Minardi and Ralph Sessions, A Shared Legacy: Folk Art in America (Alexandria, 2014), p. 221.

Exhibited

New York, American Folk Art Museum, A Shared Legacy: Folk Art in America, 14 December 2014-8 March 2015.

Special notice

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Conditions of sale

Lot Essay

Salvatore Cernigliaro is credited with introducing the rabbit and other menagerie animals after the carousel jumping mechanism was invented. For more information on Dentzel see Richard Miller, Avis Berman, Cynthia G. Falk, Lisa Minardi and Ralph Sessions, A Shared Legacy: Folk Art in America (Alexandria, 2014), p. 220.

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