Sold for:
$23,700
$23,700
Extremely rare earthenware figural candlestick, ca. 1885 , the underside of the base inscribed Solomon Bell Strasburg and also stamped S. Bell , the draped woman retaining its original brown painted surface, 10 1/2" h. Similar examples are illustrated in Rice, The Shenandoah Pottery . plate IV, and Winterthur Beyond Necessity, Art in the Folk Tradition , fig. 8. Provenance: Titus Geesey; C.M. Heffner, Reading, Pennsylvania, 1942 for $45.00.
Auctioneer:
Pook & Pook
Date:
2010-10-02
