Lot #: 45
Price Realized: $767.00
($650 hammer, plus 18% buyer's premium)
PLEASE NOTE: This result is 5 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 Anna Pottery Salt-Glazed Stoneware Pedestal Base with Molded Angel Handles and Crimped Ornamentation, Wallace and Cornwall Kirkpatrick, Anna, IL, circa 1885, wheel-thrown pedestal base with open, rounded top separated crimped embellishments, the sides fitted with molded angel's heads flanked by wings. Angels' wings and hair hand-incised with deep scoring in the manner of the Kirkpatricks applied-floral vases and the skirt of the brothers' famous "shoo fly" jugs. Interior embellished with a circular series of impressed thumbprints around the central opening. Large vertical cracks extending several inches from base. A long horizontal spider line to tapered base. A 3 7/8" flake to base. A small chip to exterior of rim. Several chips to interior of rim. Both angels with loss to nose and two other minor chips elsewhere. Some shallow chipping to crimping. H 12 1/2".
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