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American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts
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- Sale 1130
Live
| Cincinnati
Mar 30 | 10:00 AM EDT
Live
| Cincinnati
Sale 1130
| Cincinnati
| Cincinnati
Estimate$400 – $600
base faintly stenciled in red paint A Sample Of / Steel Barb Fence / From Washburn & Moen Mfg. Co. Worcester Mass.
Height 18 x width 36 x depth 3 3/8 inches.
American industrialist Ichabod Washburn (1798–1868) established his first business, a woolen machinery factory, in Worcester in 1820. Throughout the 1820s, Washburn explored the manufacture of card wire at a factory in Northville, and by 1834, he consolidated these two enterprises at a new facility on Grove Street across from Salisbury’s Pond, where he made piano wire, wire for fences, and related products. By 1850, Washburn’s son-in-law became a partner in the firm, known by that time as the Washburn and Moen Manufacturing Company. Under their stead, Washburn and Moen enjoyed robust growth, becoming the largest wire mill in the world by 1865.
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Jennifer Howe
Senior Specialist, Furniture and Decorative Arts
Leah Vogelpohl
AVP, Specialist, American Furniture, Folk, and Decorative Arts
Ms. Vogelpohl joined the firm in 2013 as a cataloger in the American and European Furniture and Decorative Arts department. She became a department specialist in 2017, focusing on American decorative arts and silver. She received a BA from the College of Charleston and an MLITT in Art History from the University of Glasgow.
Ms. Howe joined the firm in 2012 working as a specialist in the American and European Furniture and Decorative Arts department as well as the Modern and Contemporary Art and Design department.
Previously, Ms. Howe served as Associate Curator of Decorative Arts at the Cincinnati Art Museum, where she curated exhibitions focusing on American and European furniture, silver, glass and ceramics. Additionally, she was an instructor of Art History at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, an independent consultant to museums and a lecturer on decorative arts. Ms. Howe’s research and publications have focused on late 19th- and early 20th-century decorative arts and design, in particular, on Cincinnati Arts and Crafts metalwork and furniture. Ms. Howe served as editor and contributing author of the book Cincinnati Art-Carved Furniture and Interiors. She received a BA from the University of Cincinnati and an MA in Art History from the University of Minnesota.
