Significant Early Folk Art Highlander Whirligig
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Significant Early Folk Art Highlander Whirligig
Of Unusual Scale and Wearing Traditional Kilt and Costume
Weathered Hand Carved and Painted Wood and Metal
British, c.1850
36 ¼" high x 8 ¼" wide x 6" deep (incl. stand)
Provenance: Horton Manor, Chartham, Canterbury, Kent
Related Literature: James Ayres, "Two Hundred Years of English Naïve Art"; Pub. Art Services International, Virginia 1996. Item 60, page 139 illustrates and describes a similar example of a Scotsman Whirligig.
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