Lot #: 364
Price Realized: $287.50
($250 hammer, plus 15% buyer's premium)
PLEASE NOTE: This result is 10 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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