Description
This Copper Mermaid ornament replicates the Americana artform of early weathervanes in a handcrafted verdigris green finish forenjoyment all year long.
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Ninth century folklore notes that weathervanes became populardue to a papal edict that a rooster, the emblem of St. Peter, top everyChristian church. The marriage of these three-dimensional weather-cocks to themetal insignia banners (fanes) of the Middle Ages begot the use of weathervanesas architectural adornments. In mid-seventeenth century America, weathervanesforecasted the weather for the farmer and mariner. Colonial craftsmen createdoriginal forms of hand-crafted silhouette or three-dimensional weathervanes.After the Revolution, imaginative copper and tin smiths fashioned a variety ofbarnyard animals or figures representing coastal life, or whatever the propertyowner wished to have for a weathervane form.
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Made in New England.
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Verdigris (green). The ornaments vary in size by design and are approximately 3″ W x 4″ T.
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