Lot Essay
cf. Cooper-Hewitt Museum, American Art Pottery, University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 1987, p. 97, ill. 54 for example with similar decoration and color
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AN EARTHENWARE VASE
DECORATED BY SARAH AGNES ESTELLE IRVINE, POTTED BY JOSPEH FORTUNE MEYER FOR NEWCOMB COLLEGE POTTERY
The baluster form carved with moss-covered oak trees against the sky, painted underglaze in blue-greens with transparent semi-mat glaze, impressed N within C cipher, decorator's monogram S and potter's monogram JM, B enclosed within a circle, and 184 --8¼in. (20.9cm.) high
DECORATED BY SARAH AGNES ESTELLE IRVINE, POTTED BY JOSPEH FORTUNE MEYER FOR NEWCOMB COLLEGE POTTERY
The baluster form carved with moss-covered oak trees against the sky, painted underglaze in blue-greens with transparent semi-mat glaze, impressed N within C cipher, decorator's monogram S and potter's monogram JM, B enclosed within a circle, and 184 --8¼in. (20.9cm.) high