SOLD Wonderful 19th C. American Folk Art Painted Iron Wall Six Hook Hanging Rack antique award Box measures 9 1/2" x

Box measures 9 1/2" x 6 5/8"

The idea of a sit down dinner party seems a remote notion as a post these during Corona lockdown

There is some loss of paint

though I think it would also read like pure  sculpture if hung 60 inches center on a white gallery wall

or the father in a different way

SOLD Wonderful 19th C. American Folk Art Painted Iron Wall Six Hook Hanging Rack antique award Box measures 9 1/2" xAmong my very favorites of the week, and ever what a marvelous combination of functional form and exuberant expression. And it is old. I presume the zigzag snaking of the iron wire arching between the vertical and horizontal parts of the hanger was meant to help lend stability and balance against the wall (increasing surface area a bit), but what a joyful way to do it (and it reads almost as if two heads facing each other, noses touching, too.) Then