McCLELLAND BARCLAY Pair of 1930s Gold Plated Horsehead Bookends
McCLELLAND BARCLAY Pair of 1930s Gold Plated Horsehead Bookends
This pair of gold plated horsehead bookends offer a timeless, striking design. The horses, with their flaring nostrils, finely sculpted heads and manes deserve a prominent place on your bookshelf or desk. They were part of a home decor collection manufactured in the 1930s by McClelland Barclay Art Products, Inc., New York.
Year Made: 1930's
Condition: excellent vintage condition (with some loose padding inside one bookend, and there is some rubbing on the plating)
Marks: McClelland Barclay ©
Materials
Materials
gold plated metal
Dimensions
Dimensions
approx. 7.2 X 5.5 inches, including the base x 2 bookends
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Discover more about the artist's commercial enterprise created in 1931 to market metal art objects, in the new, richly illustrated biography of McClelland Barclay by Patricia Gostick.
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