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From the Christie's catalog:
item no. 184
A carved
and Painted Grinning Tiger
WILHELM SCHIMMEL, 1817-1890, Carlisle,
Cumberland county Pennsylvania, 1865-1890
The full bodied figure with
carved and black-painted details on a white-painted ground,
with red-painted, articulated
ears and a wide carved and red-painted smiling mouth,
all on four white and black-painted legs with white and black-painted tail
on a painted naturalistic ground - 6in. high, 11-1/2 in. long 2-1/4in.thick
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