A PINK-PAINTED AND DECORATED OPEN SALT

JOSEPH LONG LEHN (1798-1892), ELIZABETHTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, 1860-1880

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A PINK-PAINTED AND DECORATED OPEN SALT
Joseph Long Lehn (1798-1892), Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, 1860-1880
Open baluster-shaped on a spreading circular foot, the interior painted yellow and exterior painted pink with flowering pussy-willow and pomegranate-like branches below a blue sawtooth decorated rim, the turned support red and green-painted on a blue-painted foot
3¾in. high, 2¾in. diameter

Lot Essay

The pink overall ground color and sawtooth paint-decorated rim of this open salt make this a rarely seen example of Lehn's work.

For related turned wares by Lehn, several with pussy-willow and pomegranate decoration but none with a sawtooth border, in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, see Garvan, The Pennsylvania German Collection (Philadelphia, 1982), pp. 16-17, figs. 26-28 and p. 67, figs. 29-31.

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