Lot #: 471
Price Realized: $1,200.00
($1,000 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
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Glazed Earthenware Face Pitcher, Continental, late 19th or early 20th century, wheel-thrown pitcher with collar decorated with an applied and incised clay face, the body with elaborate incised motifs, including a bird on flowering vine, a man-in-the-moon, a sun, a quatrefoil floral motif, and a small butterfly. Multi-colored slip decoration throughout. Excellent, essentially as-made condition with two unglazed spots to handle, a small glazed-over ping at base, and a glazed-over fissure to spout. H 7 5/8".
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