$563
Seven Assorted Early Articles, America, early 19th century, a small Liverpool pottery pitcher with transfer decoration depicting THE PLOUGHMAN TURNED SAILOR and THE LUCKY ESCAPE or PLOUGHMAN'S RETURN ; a stencil and smoke-decorated wood, brass, and leather bellows; a blown-molded blue-green glass medicine bottle with embossed lettering "FROM THE LABORATORY OF W. MERCHANT CHEMIST LOCKPORT N.Y."; an 1804 printed Harvard University Order of Exercise for Commencement broadside, printed at the University Press, by W. Hilliard; a mother-of-pearl inlaid mahogany lap desk, the cover centered with a basket of fruit motif; a leather fire bucket with later taupe paint; and a 3 x 2 3/8 in. framed profile portrait engraving on paper of Thomas Jefferson, (imperfections), ht. 4 1/4-19 in. Liverpool pitcher-1/2 in. rim chip w/ associated 1 in. hairline bellows-minor paint losses glass bottle- good condition Harvard broadside- lap desk-- one hinge missing ,shrinkage cracks to lid, fire bucket- later paint Jefferson engraving portrait-image/ink smudged.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2011-03-06
