Lot #: 389
Price Realized: $295.00
($250 hammer, plus 18% buyer's premium)
PLEASE NOTE: This result is 7 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.
Two Sewer Tile Figures, Midwestern U.S. origin, probably Ohio, 20th century, a large pig bank with incised details to face, paired with a bear with hand-incised hair. Literature: Pig illustrated in Adamson, Illustrated Handbook of Sewer Pipe Folk Art. Provenance: Pig, Ex-Corwin Collection. Pig in excellent, essentially as-made condition. Bear with some in-the-firing surface cracks to interior and a surface crack to neck on reverse. H (of pig) 9 3/4".
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