Eight Pieces of Dedham Turtle Pottery

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Eight Pieces of Dedham Turtle Pottery
Decorated earthenware
Dedham, Massachusetts
Small pitcher with angled handle incised with D8 on base, covered sugar bowl with two small handles, round ashtray, flared rim bowl, and round plate, all with double Turtle decorated blue rim on white crackle-glazed ground; small plate with border decoration of turtles alternating with rectangular landscape scenes, signed by Maude Davenport; with turtle figural paperweight and turtle figural flower frog in white crackle-glaze with blue accents; all with blue ink pottery mark, obscured on flower frog; rim chip on bowl, rim roughness on ashtray, imperfections in the making, respective ht. 5, 4, dia. 4, 7 3/8, 8 5/8, 6 1/8, lg. 3 3/8, 3 1/2 in.

Provenance: Property of Penny Marshall.
Estimate $700-900

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