Lot 914
A Set of Fine Antique American "Lamb and Willow" Cast-Iron Fencing, mid-19th Century approximately 90 ft., twelve sections, thirteen posts most retaining their collars and finials, the reserves and gate with motif of weeping willow tree and lambs, the gate also marked in arch "Isaac B. Rich, 1874", height of each post 45 in., each section height 38 in., width 7 ft. 7 in., gate height 411/4 in., width 28 in. E12000- 20000 Provenance: Found in Maine; to a collector in Pennsylvania. Note: The weeping willow and lamb motif used in this lot borrows from a tradition of mourning iconography. The lamb, favored on the tombs of children, recalls Christ's sacrifice, and the innocence of the deceased. The willow tree was often planted to pull water from marshy European cemetery sites and appears often as a feature in mourning images. Reference: See Ann Masson and Lydia Schmalz, Cast Iron and the Crescent City, p. 36. Fence elevations centered by a willow shape also are installed on the perimeter of antebellum Pratt Cemetery, Autauga County, Alabama as well. More fencing with this motif is illustrated in Henry Magaziner, The Golden Age of Iron Work.
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