Lot 534
  • 534

Rare glazed red earthenware brown pitcher with yellow and green splashes, attributed to Nathaniel Seymour (1763-1849) West Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, 1800-1825

Estimate
15,000 - 18,000 USD
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Description

  • BROWN PITCHER WITH YELLOW AND GREEN SPLASHES
  • Glazed red earthenware
  • the first 6 3/8 by 5 1/2 by 4 1/2 in.; the second 2 1/4 by 12 3/4 in. diam.
  • C. 1800-1825
Together with an olive-green handled jug with rust and yellow spots, artist unidentified, probably vicinity of Gonic, Strafford County, or Plymouth, Grafton County, c.1830-1860, glazed red earthenware.  2 pieces.

Provenance

Brown Pitcher:
Katharine Prentis Murphy, Westbrook, Connecticut
O. Rundle Gilbert Auction at Candle Light Farm, Westbrook, Connecticut, "The Estate of the Late Katharine Prentis Murphy," September 1967, lot 591

Gonic Jug:
Mr. and Mrs. John G. Pennypacker, New Canaan, Connecticut
Sotheby Parke-Bernet, February 1-4, 1978, lot 76

Exhibited

On loan to New-York Historical Society from Katharine Prentis Murphy, prior to 1967

Literature

American Radiance: The Ralph Esmerian Gift to the American Folk Art Museum, p. 118, figs. 82A-B

Condition

Pitcher has some rim and base chips, and midbody on left and right sides; jug has old base chips; accretion of redware on one side of body.
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