Lot #: 156
Price Realized: $16,100.00
($14,000 hammer, plus 15% buyer's premium)
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Auction Highlight: May 19, 2007 Auction | Anna Pottery
Exceedingly Rare Anna Pottery Salt-Glazed Stoneware Figural Piece, Incised "C. Kirkpatrick / Anna Pottery" and "Come Out of Your Ghourd for the Grange," Cornwall Kirkpatrick, Anna, IL, circa 1885, finely-molded, miniature figure of a man with hat extending from a hole in the side of a gourd. Gourd attached to an octagonal pedestal, incised with the inscription "Come Out of Your Ghourd for the Grange" and signed by the maker "C. Kirkpatrick / Anna Pottery". Signed examples of Anna stoneware that include one or both of the Kirkpatrick brothers" names are considered rare. A finely-made example, which exemplifies the whimsical and imaginative nature of the Kirkpatricks" work. Small chips to base. H 3 1/2".
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