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THBSwan with Two Cygnets, Charles "Shang" Wheeler (1872-1949)
Lot 22
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Copley Fine Art Auctions
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Hingham, MA 02043
United States
Copley Fine Art Auctions is the world's leading American sporting art auction company. Located in Hingham, MA, Copley specializes in antique decoys and 19th- and 20th-century American, sporting, and wildlife paintings. Principal Stephen O'Brien Jr., a fourth-generation sportsman with a refined colle...Read more
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- Lot Description
Swan with Two Cygnets
Charles "Shang" Wheeler (1872-1949)
Stratford, CT, c. 1938
swan is 16 in. long
cygnets are 5 in. long
This unique one-third size swan family is peerless among all known vintage American bird carvings. As seen in the spring time, the mother has her cygnets resting on her hollow body while holding her wings up to protect them. Shang used this natural phenomenon to showcase this elaborate carving.
This piece was acquired by the Igleheart family directly from the artist and it resided in their Myrtle Grove Plantation in Green Pond, SC.
Original paint with even wear, slight seam separation at head-neck joint. Right wing has been reset in two places with touch-up to lines on inside of wing and to much of outside of wing.
Provenance: Austin and Suzanne Igleheart Collection
Myrtle Grove Plantation, Green Pond, South Carolina
Private Collection, by descent from above
Literature: Dixon MacD. Merkt, "Shang: A Biography of Charles E. Wheeler," Spanish Fork, UT, 1984, p. 178, exact carving illustrated.Please email condition report requests to colin@copleyart.com. Any condition statement given is a courtesy to customers, Copley will not be held responsible for any errors or omissions. The absence of a condition statement does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition.Condition
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