Lot #: 374
Price Realized: $300.00
($250 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
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Pair of Glazed Pottery Owl Figures, Both Signed "D.X. GORDY," Primrose, GA, 20th century, wheel-thrown forms with hand-modeled and applied features, glazed mottled brown with bluish eyes. One with head looking sideways, the other with head looking backwards. Incised "D.X. GORDY" signature on underside of each. Provenance: Carl and Marian Mullis Collection; Ex-Southern Folk Pottery Collectors Society, 2012. Both in excellent condition. Dimensions (of larger): 6" x 6".
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