088-1 - Carl Muller - $10,500
Late 1800s. The exceptionally large outside row prancer features a broad browed head with alert expression carried on an erect neck with a deeply carved skein mane. Fancy trappings include a saddle with an unusual owl cantle resting on an inscribed bordered blanket, a breastband depending foliate triangular lappets engaged by bead-bordered double shoulder straps, and a buckled headstall with tassel. Appliqued stamped metal accents punctuate the trappings. The big black horse presents in the untouched craquelured multi-layered park paint history that it wore on its last working day on the the now vanished carousel once located at Braddock Heights, MD. Glass eyes and natural horsehair tail. One of the largest carousel horses ever carved by Muller, it measures an impressive 74 inches long x 70 inches high.