RELIEF-CAST COMPOSITION FIGURAL TRADE ORNAMENT WALL APPLIQUE FOR "LOMBARD & LUDWIG ARCHITECTURAL SCULPTORS",early 20th century.- H: 18 in. PROVENANCE: Estate of Jim Graham, former Washington, DC, Councilman Estimate $100-200
Carved/cast by a Mr. Rickard, thought to have been a plasterer at the White House, circa 1930, but likely was contracted to the government by Lombard and Ludwig. The model portrays from left to right, Vernon Lee Good, a Brethren minister named Fulcher, and Roy Gochenour (business partner of Mr. Good). Mr. Good was the postmaster of Rileyville, Page County, Virginia, a farmer and an antiques dealer who supplied all the homespun,, primitive hand goods to furnish Mt. Vernon when it was first restored, including goods of homespun flax, a spinning wheel, cooking and kitchenware, hairbrushes, all of which were period correct for the 18th century. (Historical information provided by Mr. Good's grandson who owns another example of the plaque lacking the Lombard & Ludwig lettering.)
