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Lot 43: GRUEBY FAIENCE COMPANY

Est: $70,000 USD - $90,000 USDSold:
Sotheby'sNew York, NY, USDecember 16, 2010

Item Overview

Description

GRUEBY FAIENCE COMPANY A SUPERB SEVEN-HANDLED VASE impressed GRUEBY-POTTERY-BOSTON-U-S-A and 86 glazed earthenware 10 5/8 in. (26.9 cm) high circa 1900 designed by George Prentiss Kendrick

Exhibited

Paris 1900: The "American School" at the Universal Exposition, The Montclair Art Museum, NJ, September 18, 1999-January 16, 2000
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, February 11-April 16, 2000
Columbus Museum of Art, OH, May 18-August 13, 2000
Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, September 16-December 3, 2000
Musée Carnavalet, Paris, February 2-May 15, 2001


Literature

Robert Judson Clark, ed., The Arts and Crafts Movement in America 1876-1916, Princeton, NJ, 1972, p. 137
Susan J. Montgomery, The Ceramics of William H. Grueby, Lambertville, NJ, 1993, pp. 29 and 41, pl. X and XLV (for a mustard-colored example)
Grueby Pottery: A New England Arts and Crafts Venture, The William Curry Collection, Hanover, NH, 1994, pp. 9 and 27

Provenance

Collection of Jerome and Patricia Shaw, Farmington Hills, MI

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