Important Design

Important Design

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Property from a New York Collection

Grueby Faience Company

Seven-Handled Vase

Auction Closed

December 8, 09:48 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a New York Collection

Grueby Faience Company

Seven-Handled Vase


circa 1898

designed by George Prentiss Kendrick

glazed earthenware

numbered 85 and with the firm's impressed mark

10⅝ in. (27 cm) high

Collection of Jerome and Patricia Shaw, Farmington Hills, Michigan
Private Collection, Denver, Colorado
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Arthur Russell, ''Grueby Pottery,'' House Beautiful, December 1898, p. 5
Henry Lewis Johnson, ''Exhibition of the Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, Massachusetts,'' Brush and Pencil, June 1899, p. 173
''American Studio Talk,'' International Studio, November 1899, p. xvii
''Some New Designs and Methods in Rookwood [and] Grueby Faience,'' The Art Journal, special extra number, The Paris Exhibition, June 1900, p. 60
Walter Ellsworth Gray, “Latter-Day Developments in American Pottery,” Brush and Pencil, January 1902, pp. 236 and 240
Pendleton Dudley, “The Work of American Potters,” Arts and Decoration, November 1920, p. 21
Robert Judson Clark, ed., The Arts and Crafts Movement in America, 1876-1916, Princeton, 1972, p. 137
Grueby, exh. cat., Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, 1981, pp. 6 and 8
Tod M. Volpe and Beth Cathers, Treasures of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, 1890-1920, New York, 1988, p. 87
Susan J. Montgomery, The Ceramics of William H. Grueby, Lambertville, NJ, 1993, pls. XIII and XLV (for the model in an ochre glaze)
Grueby Pottery: A New England Arts and Crafts Venture: The William Curry Collection, 
exh. cat., Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1994, p. 9
Jonathan Clancy and Martin Eidelberg, Beauty in Common Things: American Arts & Crafts Pottery from the Two Red Roses Foundation, Palm Harbor, 2008, pp. 61 and 74