Gamecock Weathervane

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Gamecock Weathervane
Datec. 1875–1900
Made inUnited States
MediumSheet iron, gilded, copper, and paint
Dimensions23 3/4 × 23 1/4 × 4 in. (60.3 × 59.1 × 10.2 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Object numberB.71.129
Non exposé

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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
Description

This example is typical of the hollow copper weathervanes produced in great numbers by such factories as A. R. & W. T. Westervelt in New York.

Related examples: A very similar weathervane, differing only in the design of the tail, is illustrated in Westervelt 1982, p. 31, no. 162.

Book excerpt: David B. Warren, Michael K. Brown, Elizabeth Ann Coleman, and Emily Ballew Neff. American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection. Houston: Princeton Univ. Press, 1998.


ProvenanceMiss Ima Hogg; given to MFAH, 1971.
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