Lot 350
A Good Pair of Painted Cypress Punkahs, c. 1850, finely made, of mortised diamond-fret reticulation within broad trapezoidal borders, old white paint over original green stain, the lower edges each retaining six pins (or remnants) for attachment of skirts or fringes, the tops banded with well-fitted wrought-iron support straps and suspension rods, height 53.5in., width 38.5in. Note: Said to have been salvaged from Uncle Sam Plantation, near Convent, LA., in St. James Parish, a Classical Revival plantation complex which cost more than $100000 to construct in 1843-1849, demolished 1940 by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; see Clarence John Laughlin, Ghosts Along the Mississippi, New York, 1948/1961/1987.
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