GRUEBY FAÏENCE COMPANY | "FERN-HANDLED" VASE

Auction Closed

July 30, 06:21 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of a New York Collector

GRUEBY FAÏENCE COMPANY

"FERN-HANDLED" VASE

circa 1901

modeled by Ruth Erickson and decorated by Florence S. Liley

executed by Ruth Erickson

glazed earthenware

with the firm's impressed mark, with artists' monograms RE and FSL and numbered 172

10¾ in. (27.3 cm) high

Private Collection, Shrewsbury, Pennsylvania

Acquired from the above by the present owner

House & Garden, 1901

Susan J. Montgomery, The Ceramics of William H. Grueby, Lambertville, NJ, 1993, pp. 51, 78 and pl. VIII

John Clancy and Martin Eidelberg, Beauty in Common Things: American Arts & Crafts Pottery From the Two Red Roses Foundation, Clearwater, FL, 2008, p. 47