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Scrimshaw Whale's Tooth Showing the Frances of New BedfordScrimshaw Whale's Tooth Showing the Frances of New Bedford

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Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 116

Scrimshaw Whale's Tooth Showing the Frances of New BedfordScrimshaw Whale's Tooth Showing the Frances of New Bedford

Schätzpreis
100.000 $ - 150.000 $
Zuschlagspreis:
110.700 $
Beschreibung:

Scrimshaw Whale's Tooth Showing the Frances of New Bedford, Frederick Myrick, Nantucket, c. 1828-29, one side carved with banner reading "The Frances on the coast of Peru," above the whaleship with crew hoisting the blanket piece aboard and three whaleboats at the bow, and motto "Death to the living long life to the killers/Success to the sailors wives & greasy luck to whalers" below, the other side carved with banner reading "The Frances on her homeward bound passage," with lighthouse off the port bow, and inscription "Ship Frances of New Bedford" below, the tip carved on one side with crossed American flags, the other with an anchor and eagle clutching arrows and an olive branch, below a vine border, stars, and banner inscribed "E PLURIBUS UNUM," lg. 7 3/4 in. Provenance: Collection of Jeffrey & Francine Cohen, sold at Richard A. Bourne, July 31, 1989, Lot 85; Richard A. Bourne, November 24, 1979, Lot 312. Literature: This tooth, one of two known showing the whaleship Frances, is illustrated and discussed in Frederick Myrick of Nantucket Scrimshaw Catalogue Raisonne, compiled by Donald E. Ridley, P.E., and edited by Stuart M. Frank, Ph.D. (Kendall Whaling Museum, Sharon, Massachusetts, 2000), as tooth #30 F-2, p. 32. Note: In a biographical note that appears in the catalogue raisonne, Stuart Frank writes that Frederick Myrick is "undoubtedly the most famous scrimshaw artist...[and his] work will likely always remain a cornerstone of any scrimshaw collection." Myrick's work, according to Frank in Ingenious Contrivances, Curiously Carved: Scrimshaw in the New Bedford Whaling Museum (David R. Godine, Boston, 2012), is collectively known as "...Susan's Teeth. Today, connoisseurs regard Susan's Teeth as the benchmarks of any collection." (p. 22). Myrick is known to have produced approximately thirty-five teeth, most of which do indeed show the whaleship Susan, on which he spent three years during a voyage to the Pacific. His teeth, according to Frank, are "each engraved on both sides, each with two proficient portraits of the same ship, whether whaling, cutting in, or homeward bound, and each with spread eagles, anchors, flags, and mottos. They are very much alike; and yet each one is unique, with the same components used over and over again, but differently deployed in each case, in conformity with the contour of each of the individual teeth." (p. 22).

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 116
Auktion:
Datum:
04.03.2017
Auktionshaus:
Bonhams | Skinner
Park Plaza 63
Boston, MA 02116
Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
+1 (0)617 3505400
+1 (0)617 3505429
Beschreibung:

Scrimshaw Whale's Tooth Showing the Frances of New Bedford, Frederick Myrick, Nantucket, c. 1828-29, one side carved with banner reading "The Frances on the coast of Peru," above the whaleship with crew hoisting the blanket piece aboard and three whaleboats at the bow, and motto "Death to the living long life to the killers/Success to the sailors wives & greasy luck to whalers" below, the other side carved with banner reading "The Frances on her homeward bound passage," with lighthouse off the port bow, and inscription "Ship Frances of New Bedford" below, the tip carved on one side with crossed American flags, the other with an anchor and eagle clutching arrows and an olive branch, below a vine border, stars, and banner inscribed "E PLURIBUS UNUM," lg. 7 3/4 in. Provenance: Collection of Jeffrey & Francine Cohen, sold at Richard A. Bourne, July 31, 1989, Lot 85; Richard A. Bourne, November 24, 1979, Lot 312. Literature: This tooth, one of two known showing the whaleship Frances, is illustrated and discussed in Frederick Myrick of Nantucket Scrimshaw Catalogue Raisonne, compiled by Donald E. Ridley, P.E., and edited by Stuart M. Frank, Ph.D. (Kendall Whaling Museum, Sharon, Massachusetts, 2000), as tooth #30 F-2, p. 32. Note: In a biographical note that appears in the catalogue raisonne, Stuart Frank writes that Frederick Myrick is "undoubtedly the most famous scrimshaw artist...[and his] work will likely always remain a cornerstone of any scrimshaw collection." Myrick's work, according to Frank in Ingenious Contrivances, Curiously Carved: Scrimshaw in the New Bedford Whaling Museum (David R. Godine, Boston, 2012), is collectively known as "...Susan's Teeth. Today, connoisseurs regard Susan's Teeth as the benchmarks of any collection." (p. 22). Myrick is known to have produced approximately thirty-five teeth, most of which do indeed show the whaleship Susan, on which he spent three years during a voyage to the Pacific. His teeth, according to Frank, are "each engraved on both sides, each with two proficient portraits of the same ship, whether whaling, cutting in, or homeward bound, and each with spread eagles, anchors, flags, and mottos. They are very much alike; and yet each one is unique, with the same components used over and over again, but differently deployed in each case, in conformity with the contour of each of the individual teeth." (p. 22).

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 116
Auktion:
Datum:
04.03.2017
Auktionshaus:
Bonhams | Skinner
Park Plaza 63
Boston, MA 02116
Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
+1 (0)617 3505400
+1 (0)617 3505429
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