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Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsMarlborough MA
July 15, 2016 10:00 AMCalender
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White Salt-glazed Stoneware Bird

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$1,845$1,500
Auction: European Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2920MLocation: MarlboroughDate / Time: July 15, 2016 10:00AM

Description:

White Salt-glazed Stoneware Bird, England, c. 1725-30, probably Staffordshire, press-molded songbird perched atop a rocky mound, brown slip features and spotting, ht. 5 1/8 in.

Provenance: From the Troy Chappell Collection; Ex collection Major Cyril T. Earle.

Literature: Illustrated in Ceramics in America-2001, The Chipstone Foundation, p. 195, fig. 10; The Earle Collection of Early Staffordshire Pottery, by Earle, p. 47, illus. 103.
Estimate $4,000-6,000

Glaze abrasion tpo tip of beak; discolored footrim repair; shallow footrim chip.


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Cyril T. Earle, United Kingdom