Bathing Beauty Figurehead

Folk art carving by Clarence Stringfield of a bathing beauty coming out of the ether. Almost has the feel of a figurehead. 1969.

Measures 23" tall.

Available here.

Circa 1850 Ship's Bust Portrait Figurehead, American

Sold for $18,750.00 including premium at Sotheby's.

Circa 1830 Folk Art Carved Ship's Figurehead

Sold at Skinner for $85,000 (before premium).

Auction house description: Carved and Painted Wood Ship's Figurehead, America, c. 1830, the figurehead reportedly depicting Commodore Matthew C. Perry of the U.S. Navy, original surface, ht. 22, wd. 15 1/2, dp. 14 1/2 in. Provenance: According to family lore, the figurehead, thought to be Commodore Perry, was purchased by Arthur Beane's father, Judge Beane, from a fisherman in the nineteen teens. The fisherman told the judge that the figurehead, from an earlier salvage, was found washed ashore at Monomoy Island. The island is southwest of Chatham, on Cape Cod, off the Massachusetts mainland.

The Discovery of the Jenny Lind Figurehead

Karl-Eric Svärdskog was a schoolteacher in Sweden who decided to open an antique shop. One day a local picker asked him if he was interested in buying a "scarecrow". Together they went to a farmer's barn and found something else entirely...
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