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Founded in 2005, Copley Fine Art Auctions is a boutique auction house specializing in antique decoys and American, sporting, and wildlife paintings. Over the course of the last two decades, the firm has set auction records for not only individual decoy makers, but also entire carving regions. Copley...Read more
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Jul 25, 2015 - Jul 26, 2015
John Dilley, Quogue, Long Island, NY, c. 1890
Provenance: Private Collection, Florida
Literature: Adele Earnest, "The Art of the Decoy: American Bird Carvings," West Chester, PA, 1965, p. 60, Fig. 41, similar decoy illustrated.
William J. Mackey, Jr., "American Bird Decoys," New York, NY, 1965, color plate IV, similar decoy illustrated.
Timothy Sieger, "The Decoys of Long Island," Water Mill, NY, 2010, p. 48, similar example illustrated.
Oliver's, "American Bird Decoys," Kennebunk, ME, October 1994, lot 610, exact decoy illustrated.
Original paint with even gunning wear.
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