Four North Carolina Attributed Folk Dolls with Carved Wood Fox in Shadowbox

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Collection of Carole Wahler | January 29, 202...

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Jan 29, 2025

Set Reminder 2025-01-29 10:00:00 2025-01-29 10:00:00 America/New_York Bidsquare Bidsquare : Collection of Carole Wahler | January 29, 2025 https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/brunk/collection-of-carole-wahler-january-29-2025-17149
As a singular figure in the world of American pottery and early textiles, Dr. Wahler was a celebrated curator, collector, and scholar. Early Southern furniture including four MESDA documented items: VA William and Mary paneled trunk, VA Chippendale Cupboard, TN inlaid cherry chest of drawers and a TN cherry high chest, many early Southern painted furniture examples, Ten Ulysses Davis folk art carvings, textiles to include a rare Asheville sampler dated 1824, quilt dated1861, rare Southern salt glaze and redware pottery examples to include TN, AL and NC. Brunk Auctions support@brunkauctions.com

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• Lot Description

  possibly 19th century, rag and fiber covered wire dolls with later clothes over original, period clothes, mounted on later stands; pink dress example with sculpted and painted clay head, carved and painted wood legs and shoes; apron example with painted and embroidered fabric head, fiber hair, carved wood hand basket, carved wood legs and shoes; hat example with sculpted and painted clay head; one example with carved and painted wooden head; associated carved and painted fox with inset bead eyes; housed in painted hinged lid shadowbox, lined with paper bag scrap with pencil drawing of an apple tree; largest doll 9-1/8 in., box 11-1/2 x 19 x 3-1/2 in.

  Provenance: According to consignor notes, these dolls were found in an abandoned house in Randolph County, North Carolina along with a Civil War uniform; purchased from Bob Loy, North Carolina, 1987 for $650; Collection of Carole Wahler, Knoxville, Tennessee

• Provenance

  According to consignor notes, these dolls were found in an abandoned house in Randolph County, North Carolina along with a Civil War uniform; purchased from Bob Loy, North Carolina, 1987 for $650; Collection of Carole Wahler, Knoxville, Tennessee

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• Condition
  stains, discoloration, fading, picked and pulled threads, fraying, wear and loss to painted decoration, all commensurate with age and use; pink dress example with wire hands exposed, head detached and held on with later clothes; apron example with breaks and losses to toes of shoes, some loss of hair; hat example with remnants of paint to face, loss to nose, later felt repairs to feet; wood head example with tear to later pants at rear, wire exposed at proper right foot; fox example with wear and loss to painted decoration, small hole to underside; shadowbox with wear and loss to paint, especially at frame, lacking glass