Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (1880-1980) Girl with Frog (Frog Ashtray) 4 3/4 in. (12.1 cm.) high (Modeled in 1910; Cast circa 1910-20.)PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, NEW YORKHarriet Whitney Frishmuth (1880-1980)Girl with Frog (Frog Ashtray) inscribed 'Harriet W. FrishmuthCopyright. 1910' (on the base) and inscribed 'GORHAM CO. FOUNDERS QEH' (on the base)bronze with brown patina4 3/4 in. (12.1 cm.) highModeled in 1910; Cast circa 1910-20.ProvenanceStuf Antiques, Asheville, North Carolina.Sale, Brunk Auctions, Asheville, North Carolina, January 8, 2005, lot 262.Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.LiteratureGorham Company, Bronze Division, Bronze Division Papers: Casting Records of Statuary and Small Bronzes Owned by Gorham, Q Numbers Assigned to Bronzes, 1905-1970, New York, 1910, p. 155, no. QEH, another example listed. (as Ash Tray Bronze. Nude Female)Gorham Company, Bronze Division, Bronze Division Papers: Photograph Files of Statuary and Small Bronzes, New York, 1910, n.p., no. QEH, other examples illustrated. (as Woman & Frog)C.N. Aronson, Sculptured Hyacinths, New York, 1973, pp. 85-86, another example illustrated.K. Ahrens, Harriet Whitney Frishmuth: Small Bronzes, exhibition catalogue, Athens, Ohio, 2001, p. 3, another example listed.J. Conner, L.R. Lehmbeck, T. Tolles, F.L. Hohmann III, Captured Motion, The Sculpture of Harriet Whitney Frishmuth: A Catalogue of Works, New York, 2006, pp. 128, 220, no. 1910:8, another example illustrated.There are 105 known examples of Girl with Frog (Frog Ashtray), including the present work, that were cast by the Gorham Manufacturing Company, Bronze Division. Another example of Girl with Frog (Frog Ashtray) can be found in the collection of Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia (ac. no. 1952.353).