Lot #: 364
Price Realized: $287.50
($250 hammer, plus 15% buyer's premium)
PLEASE NOTE: This result is 9 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.
Rare Sewer Tile Frog Pitcher, Rochester Sewer Pipe Company, Rochester, NY, circa 1890, tankard-form pitcher with rustic bark surface, the spout decorated with an applied figure of a frog above a flower blossom, the sides with molded and applied figural scenes of a man smoking a pipe, seated atop a barrel. Incised detail to frog's body and face. Frog and other applied designs additionally include gouged circular embellishments. A small number of signed sewer tile pitchers with distinctive frog spouts indicate this example was made at the Rochester Sewer Pipe Company in Rochester, NY, possibly by the German-born potter, William Hirzel, or Scottish-born potter, William Lyle. Excellent, essentially as-made condition. H 6 1/2".
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