Holding open a sack of grain marked IHS (the abbreviation for the name Jesus in Greek), on a mound base
5⅝ in. (14.3 cm) high

Estate of Lucy Truman Aldrich, Providence, Rhode Island, acquired August 1955.

D. Fennimore et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Decorative Arts, New York, 1992, vol. IV, pp. 70-71, no. 49.

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