FANNIE AUCKLAND FOR ROOKWOOD, 1882 AND ALBERT R. VALENTIEN FOR ROOKWOOD, 1884

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THREE EARTHENWARE EWERS
Fannie Auckland for Rookwood, 1882 and Albert R. Valentien for Rookwood, 1884
The first with trefoil rim, the bisque ground decorated about the neck with a checkerboard motif, the body glazed with ferns, impressed Rookwood 1882 FA; the second in red clay finish, decorated about the waist with a pale green band enclosing a stylized salmon-colored foliate pattern, impressed Rookwood 1884 R and further incised A.R.V.; the third in the Limoges style decorated with a patchwork of panels featuring Oriental designs and portraits, impressed Rookwood 1882 and painted AEW 1882; together with a Rookwood cabinet ewer, in the White/Ivory glaze, modeled with stylized aster heads and foliage in deep green, impressed Rookwood 1883 W61 with the small kiln mark
11¾in. (29.9cm.) height of the tallest (4)

Special notice

This lot has no reserve.

Lot Essay

cf. Cliff R. Leonard and Duke Coleman, Rookwood Pottery Potpourri, 1980, p.10 for a comparable ewer by Fannie Auckland; Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, American Art Pottery - Selections from The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, Orlando Museum of Art, 1995, p.46.

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