Image Lot Price Description



1416
$592.50

ROGERS GROUP “TAKING THE OATH” WITH CIVIL WAR ERA DRESS AND 1861 MAP.

3rd quarter 19th century, American. Chalkware statuary group, featuring a Civil War soldier, woman with child and slave boy with basket, titled “Taking the Oath and Drawing Rations”, signed on base “John Rogers, New York, patented January 30, 1866”. Accompanying this lot is a Civil War era dress much like the one seen in Rogers Group, made of patterned blue silk with cotton lining and a large military 1861 dated map published by Lloyd of New York. These three items were all displayed in the same area of the Greene Museum of Southern History. SIZE: Rogers Group: 23-1/2″ t. Map: 36″ h x 28″ w. PROVENANCE: The Greene Museum of Southern History. CONDITION: Repainted, losses to back apparently otherwise very good. 9-28010 (400-800) – Lot 1416


Auction: Fine Art, Antiques & Asian - February 2015
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