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THBAmerican Whaling Scrimshaw Drinking Horn Beaker with Ship Scene
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522 South Pineapple Avenue
Sarasota, FL 34236
United States
Sarasota Estate Auction specializes in a wide variety of furniture, antiques, fine art, lighting, sculptures, and collectibles. Andrew Ford, owner and operator of the company, has a passion for finding the best pieces of art and antiques and sharing those finds with the Gulf Coast of Florida.
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LiveJan 19, 2025
Over 800 lots will be offered in day 2 of our 2 day weekend. There are multiple lots of important fine art from landscapes and etchings to old masters and portraits. We have a collection of sterling silver, African artifacts, oriental rugs, Asian antiquities, a collection from the Ex Managing Director of the NYC Waldorf Astoria, and more! Sarasota Estate Auction sarasotaestateauction@gmail.com
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American Whaling Scrimshaw Drinking Horn Beaker with Ship Scene. Shows the vessel Charity on the waves with whaling boats and breaching whales around her. The Nantucket Historical Association has a logbook of the Brig Charity's voyage from 1821 to 1822, originating in New York with Master Charles H. Barnard.
Size: 2 1/2 X 2 1/2 X 4 1/2 in.
#4839 .
Scrimshaw is scrollwork, engravings, and carvings done in bone or ivory. Typically it refers to the artwork created by whalers, engraved on the byproducts of whales, such as bones or cartilage. It is most commonly made out of the bones and teeth of sperm whales, the baleen of other whales, and the tusks of walruses. It takes the form of elaborate engravings in the form of pictures and lettering on the surface of the bone or tooth, with the engraving highlighted using a pigment or, less often, small sculptures made from the same material. However the latter usually falls into the categories of ivory carving, for all carved teeth and tusks, or bone carving. The making of scrimshaw probably began on whaling ships in the late 18th Century and was extremely popular until the ban on commercial whaling, although the practice survives as a hobby and as a trade for commercial artisans. A maker of scrimshaw is known as a scrimshander, with both words first appearing in the logbook of the brig By Chance in 1826, but the etymology is uncertain. Scrimshaw developed from sailors on whaling ships creating their own common tools from the byproducts of whales that were readily available. The term originally referred to the making of these tools, only later referring to works of art created by whalers in their spare time. Whale bone was ideally suited for the task, as it is easy to work and was plentiful. Although the practice had been done by indigenous people for hundreds if not thousands of years, the specific term took hold after articles appeared in major national newspapers in the mid-19th Century detailing the pieces made by English, American, and Canadian whalers. Herman Melville, in Moby-Dick, refers to “lively sketches of whales and whaling-scenes, graven by the fishermen themselves on Sperm Whale-teeth, or ladies’ busks wrought out of the Right Whale-bone, and other skrimshander articles.” Early scrimshaw was done with sailing needles or other sharp implements, and the movement of the ship as well as the skill of the artist produced drawings of varying levels of detail and artistry. Typically, readily available pigments onboard a whaleship like candle black, soot, or tobacco juice were used to bring the etched design into view. Ink, while used in some cases, was a more expensive and rarer option for this purpose. Many surviving examples of scrimshaw are unsigned, and a great many of the pieces are anonymous. Today’s artists use finer tools in various sizes, mostly borrowed from the dental industry. Some scrimshanders ink their work with more than one color, and restrained polychromed examples of this art are now popular. The Endangered Species Act and international conventions over the last century restricted the harvest and sale of ivory in an effort to bolster populations of ivory-bearing animals after many were hunted to near-extinction, so early pieces of scrimshaw are now considered highly sought collectibles.
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2 1/2 X 2 1/2 X 4 1/2 in.
