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I couldn't find anything online about this or anything that looks like this beautiful piece of art if anybody knows anything please let me know thank you
J. WILLI MSON&CO ART Metal works. Louisville KY | ||
| Art Deco Bronze139 of 250 |  |  |
OHN WILLIAMSON was born in Abernathy Scotland J about the year 1838 and came to this country about 1866 settling soon after in Louisville Kentucky where he established himself in the business of woodcarving to which he had served an apprenticeship in Glascow It is to be presumed that necessarily in connection with designing and carving in wood he must have acquired at least some rudiments of that knowledge of drawing which later on he turned to such good account in his exquisite fern work but he once told me that he had never received any regular instruction and was practically self taught At the time his Ferns of Kentucky was published he was engaged in carrying on a brass foundry under the title of John Williamson & Co and perfecting himself in the knowledge of working metals which enabled him subsequently to give to the world that wonderful combination of the practical and beautiful in household decorative art seen in the remarkable output of the Williamson Art Metal Works at the Southern Exhibition in 1883 . He died 17th June 1884 at 46 yrs. old.
JOHN, ops lol