SCARCE EARLY to LATE 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN FOLK ART, NEW ENGLAND PRIMITIVE ANTIQUE MAPLE HARDWOOD, HAND TURNED WOODEN DOUGH/MIXING BOWL, featuring LATER, SUBSEQUENT, LATE 19TH to EARLY 20TH CENTURY HAND DECORATED SURFACES, featuring STAMPED STARS on TOP SILL & HAND DRAWN, INCISED FIGURATIVE DRAWINGS with SIREN PLAYING the FLUTE, REALIZED on BOWL'S INTERIOR BASIN, with INSCRIPTION
'S. J. DURQIN, LACONIA, NH, PROGRARRY' on BOWL'S BOTTOM BASEPLATE
[Offered for your review & consideration is this, as unusual as it is wonderful, early to late 19th century American folk art, New England primitive, antique maple hardwood, hand turned wooden dough/mixing bowl, featuring later, subsequent, late 19th to early 20th century hand decorated surfaces, with stamped stars on the bowl's flat sill & hand drawn, incised figurative drawings, with a siren female figure playing the flute, realized on the bowl's interior basin. On the verso, found on the baseplate is the branded inscription 'S. J. Durqin, Laconia, NH, Prograrry.' The bowl has quite a bit of evidence of being previously used in the form of incised cutlery marks on principally its interior basin. The wood is naturally oxidized & has a warm honey color, with hints of deeper amber, burnt umber, yellow ochre & sepia brown. On the outside shell, perhaps mimicking the look of bird's eye maple, we see dark pin-pricked or burned marks, resembling the darker in color 'bird's eyes' of figured, diseased maple hardwood. The bowl hasn't been lacquered, substantially changed or altered. What we see is a much earlier primitive bowl, than the later hand drawing & stamped stars that embellish its interior basin. A relic from literally not one but two distinct eras. Fascinating.]
(Initial realization: Circa 1830-1860
Subsequent hand decorated surfaces: 1880-1920)
Early to mid 19th century American folk art, New England primitive, antique hand turned & hand decorated maple hardwood wooden dough/mixing/serving bowls
DIMENSIONS:
3" Height x 11 ¾" Width x 11" Length
Weight: 1 lb. 10 oz.
DESCRIPTION:
Offered for your review and consideration is this, as unusual as it is wonderful, early to late 19th century American folk art, New England primitive, antique maple hardwood, hand turned wooden dough/mixing bowl, featuring later, subsequent, late 19th to early 20th century hand decorated surfaces, with stamped stars on the bowl's flat sill and hand drawn, incised figurative drawings, with a siren female figure playing the flute, realized on the bowl's interior basin. On the verso, found on the baseplate is the branded inscription 'S. J. Durqin, Laconia, NH, Prograrry.' The bowl has quite a bit of evidence of being previously used in the form of incised cutlery marks on principally its interior basin. The wood is naturally oxidized and has a warm honey color with hints of deeper amber, burnt umber, yellow ochre and sepia brown. On the outside shell, perhaps mimicking the look of bird's eye maple, we see dark pin-pricked or burned marks, resembling the darker in color bird's eyes of figured, diseased maple hardwood. The bowl hasn't been lacquered, substantially changed or altered. What we see is a much earlier primitive bowl, than the later hand drawing and stamped stars that embellish its interior basin. A relic from literally not one but two distinct eras. Fascinating.
CONDITION:
Good to Very Good overall antique condition.