Lot #: 171
Price Realized: $6,000.00
($5,000 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
PLEASE NOTE: This result is 4 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.
Extremely Rare Salt-Glazed Stoneware Hanging Flowerpot, attributed to David Greenland Thompson, Morgantown, WV, circa 1885, wheel-thrown, bowl-shaped form with original drain hole in underside and two applied clay straps for hanging on interior of rim, the surface painstakingly-decorated with dozens of molded and applied clay pine cones. One of a small number of surviving Thompson pieces with sprigged naturalistic decoration, this highly-decorative work relates to America's burgeoning art pottery movement. A closely-related work, sold as lot 130 in Crocker Farm's Spring 2020 auction, featured pine cones in a variety of sizes, applied in a random manner. This flowerpot instead uses different molds of small pine cones applied in more-orderly rows. Literature: For related works, see Duez and Horvath with Heindl, "The Stoneware Years of the Thompson Potters of Morgantown, West Virginia, 1854-1890," Ceramics in America 2011, fig. 59. According to this article, such objects were only made by David Greenland Thompson as gifts for family members and townspeople. Excellent condition with a few large chips to pine cones, which occurred in the making and are lightly glazed-over with salt. H 8" ; Diam. 12".
Click images to enlarge.
A Few of the Related Items We've Sold
Morgantown, WV Stoneware People Crock
Extremely Rare LYONS, New York Stoneware Jar with Rabbit Decoration
Rare and Important Four-Gallon Uniontown, PA People Crock w/ Two People
Exceptional Morgantown, WV Stoneware Jar w/ Cobalt Decoration of a Farmer and his Wife
Very Fine MORGANTOWN POTTERY Stoneware Jar w/ Elaborate Coggled House Scene
Outstanding Small-Sized Parkersburg, WV Stoneware Presentation Jar, attrib. Donaghho
Uniontown, PA or Morgantown, WV Stoneware People Crock
Morgantown, WV or Southwestern PA Stoneware Jar w/ Woman Firing Gun
