Lot #: 390
Price Realized: $390.00
($325 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
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Blue-Glazed Stoneware Lion, Signed "Steve Turpin," Homer, GA, hand-modeled figure of a lion modeled after Solomon Bell's masterpiece, featuring a blue-glazed surface and applied clay "coleslaw." Underside with incised signature and date. Provenance: Carl and Marian Mullis Collection; On long-term loan to Colonial Williamsburg, 2019 to 2023. Exhibited: All Creatures Great and Small, Georgia Museum of Art, April 20, 2011 to October 16, 2012. Excellent condition. L 9".
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