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Lot 70

Daniel Otto(Flat Tulip Artist, Southeastern Pennsy

Estimate: $2,500 - $3,500
Sold for
$2,990
Sold Price includes BP

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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.