Sold for:
$2,990
$2,990
Daniel Otto(Flat Tulip Artist, Southeastern Pennsylvania, active 1792-1822) - Taufschein, hand-drawn watercolor and ink on laid paper, for Barbara Horner, 1814, Centre County, with typical heart center with elaborate border of trailing vines and flowers enclosing script flanked by 7 red, yellow, and green crowns and flat tulips, 13" x 16 1/2"(losses). For similar examples, see The Pennsylvania German Fraktur of the Free Library of Philadelphia , plate 106; the collection of H. William Koch, Pook & Pook, June 1999, lots 23, 34, 46, 220, and 278; and Fraktur Writings or Illuminated Manuscripts , by Dr. Donald A. Shelley, plate 213.
Auctioneer:
Pook & Pook
Date:
2004-10-08
