Description
A 19th Century Painted Folk Art ‘Weather-Cottage’. The two storied rectangular structure with a back-sloped roof, arch-topped horn windows to the top floor and a pair of arched openings underneath housing a pair of pivoting, carved & painted wooden figures. The windows and arched openings edged in twine, the house encrusted with granular foliage. [For a similar oak weather cottage, now in the collection of Birmingham Art Museum & Gallery see ‘Treen & Other Bygones’ by E.H. Pinto, plate 223 with a explanation of page 215; ‘a hygrometer with two figures serving as pointers, actuated by an arrangement of a bunch of hairs, from which they are hung, which lengthen and shorten due to changing atmospheric humidity’].*