Lot #: 554
Price Realized: $258.75
($225 hammer, plus 15% buyer's premium)
PLEASE NOTE: This result is 11 years old, and the American ceramics market frequently changes. Additionally, small nuances of color, condition, shape, etc. can mean huge differences in price. If you're interested in having us sell a similar item for you, please contact us here.
Six Pottery Pig Figures, Midwestern origin, late 19th century, a spongeware pig bank; a spongeware pig flask; a Rockingham-glazed pig bank; an unglazed pig flask; and two Albany-slip-glazed pig paperweights or doorstops. Spongeware pig with two small chips to slot and in-the-firing chips to back feet. Spongeware pig flask with chips to one ear, loss to one foot, and a chip to another foot. Rockingham-glazed bank in excellent condition. Unglazed flask in excellent condition. One Albany-slip-glazed pig with a loss to ear, chip to foot, and shallow nick to snout; other pig with a loss to one ear, two nicks to opposite ear, a nick to mouth, and a nick to back foot. L (of unglazed pig) 7".
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