Mannequin Head Hat or Wig Stand
\nMid 20th Century
\nPainted glass and wood
\n14 inches high, 5.25 inches wide<\/p>\n
A whimsical mid-century hat or wig stand in the form of a bust sculpture of a dapper man. The style overall is related to the Art Deco movement, having sharp contrasting white and black colors and repeating geometric shapes and simple lines. The man\u2019s face is hand-painted on a cream white ground, with neat parted black hair and with bold red color to brighten his cheeks and lips. The head is a simple rounded shape, with a support to form his neck (painted as if he is wearing on tie), raised on a stepped rounded white base, with a red ring highlight. The entire piece is apparently hand made, rather than manufactured, with a glass head and a wooden base, though as hand painted the glass material is opaque and not apparent.<\/p>\n
This stand is reminiscent of various ceramic hat stands formed as a woman\u2019s head that were produced by the Stangl Pottery Company, Trenton, New Jersey, in the mid 20th century. Other earlier extant American, English, and continental painted examples made in paper mache and wood are known, some considered folk art. Figurine heads of this type are generally said to have been made for display of hats in a millinery shop or the storage of hats or wigs at home. This example, as a male rather than female head, is unusual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40544,"template":"","meta":{"wds_primary_product_brand":0,"wds_primary_product_cat":0,"footnotes":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[4224],"product_tag":[61,843,2444,1348,41,5784,9530,1140,6855,1040,9527,9526,9529],"class_list":{"0":"post-40498","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-archive-decorative-arts","7":"product_tag-20th-century","8":"product_tag-art-deco","9":"product_tag-bust","10":"product_tag-figurine","11":"product_tag-french","12":"product_tag-hat","13":"product_tag-hat-stand","14":"product_tag-head","15":"product_tag-mannequin","16":"product_tag-sculpture","17":"product_tag-stangl","18":"product_tag-wig","19":"product_tag-wig-stand","20":"post","21":"post-with-thumbnail","22":"post-with-thumbnail-large","24":"first","25":"instock","26":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/40498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/40498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44750,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/40498\/revisions\/44750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=40498"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=40498"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=40498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}