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51.
Arts & Crafts Even Arm Settle
Oak and black leather upholstery
Probably L. & J.G. Stickley, New York, early
20th century
Even rail over sixteen vertical back and five
vertical side slats, long slip cushion seat
accompanied by two pillows, raised on four
square posts with beveled shaped tops, legs
ended out, ht. 34, wd. 76, dp. 31 in.
$1,200-1,800
52.
Russell G. Crook Decorated Vase
Stoneware
Wayland, Massachusetts, 1906-12
Decorated with deer grazing in a forest in
mottled cobalt blue and slate gray glaze
on cylindrical form swelling toward base,
inscribed RC on base, imperfections and
glaze hairlines created in the firing, ht. 11 7/8
in.
Note: Russell G. Crook is listed as a sculptor,
plaster modeler, and potter. He exhibited
extensively at the Boston Society of Arts
and Crafts from 1899-1927. He was also
a member of the Wayland Massachusetts
Society from 1906-1912, where he was
known for his animal decoration on
earthenware. There are two examples shown
in Earliest Reflections, Furnishings From
the family of Edwin B. Sears, a catalogue
published by the Society for the Preservation
of New England Antiquities (Historic New
England), p. 27, and also a piece in the
Newark Museum collection.
$2,000-3,000
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52A.
Hammered Copper Vase
Vasiform body with large angular double
handles, ht. 13 1/8 in.
$200-300
53.
Weller Zona Pattern Pottery Jardinière
Decorated glazed pottery
Zanesville, Ohio, c. 1920
Decorated around the sides with molded
maidens, vines, and garlands of flowers,
matte glaze in shades of brown, pink, and
blue, on a shaded green ground, hairline, ht.
9 in.
$400-600
54.
Saturday Evening Girls Vase
Glazed pottery
Boston, 1917
Matte blue glazed elongated oval form,
inscribed S.E.G./5-17/RB on base, ht. 6 1/4
in.
$125-150
55.
Saturday Evening Girls Wall Pocket
Pottery
Fannie Levine, Boston, Massachusetts
Triangular form in yellow glaze, signed S.E.G.,
artist’s initials FL, 7-23, ht. 6 in.
$150-200
56.
Ernest Batchelder (1875-1957) Two Tiles
Pottery
Los Angeles, early 20th century
Square tiles with relief decoration bisque fired
with blue glaze in the recessed areas, one
depicting a man on horseback, the other a
stylized flower, impressed BATCHELDER LOS
ANGELES on the reverse, 3 7/8 x 3 7/8, 2
3/4 x 2 3/4 in.
$600-800
57.
Rookwood Pottery Scenic Vellum Vase
Decorated earthenware
Decorated by Lenore Asbury, Cincinnati,
Ohio, 1922
Open mouth with bulbous shoulder tapering
towards base, tree and waterscape in colors
of blue, cream, and green, pottery, date mark,
and artist’s initials, numbered 2033C and V
for Vellum, some crazing, ht. 12 1/2 in.
$1,500-2,000
58.
Rookwood Pottery Scenic Vellum Vase
Decorated earthenware
Decorated by Fred Rothenbusch, Cincinnati,
Ohio, 1920
Landscape decoration with a stream in
cream, blue, and greens with earth tones,
on tapering cylindrical form with inverted
shoulder, pottery and date mark, artist’s
initials, shape 1652D V for vellum, paper label
Born collection, numbered 41, crazing, ht. 9
1/2 in.
$1,000-1,500
59.
Pair of Rookwood Pottery Panther
Bookends
Glazed earthenware
William Purcell McDonald, Cincinnati, Ohio,
1925
Blue-gray panthers resting within the pages
of a stylized book, pottery and date mark,
numbered 2564, artist’s monogram within
glaze, ht. 5 5/8, wd. 5 1/2 in.
$600-800
60.
Rookwood Decorated Pottery Vase
Possibly Jens Jensen or W.E. Hentschel,
Cincinnati, Ohio, 1935
Decorated with ivory birds and blue and
brown branches in matte glaze, pottery and
date mark and “S” for special, artist’s initials
illegible, ht. 4 in.
$400-600
61.
Two Rookwood Pottery Vases
Decorated earthenware
Cincinnati, Ohio, 1905 and 1919
Including a yellow glazed vase decorated by
Ed Hurley with flying birds, crazing and rim
hairline; and a wax resist vase in blues and
greens decorated by LJ- (the last initial hidden
by glaze), both with pottery and date marks,
respective ht. 6 1/2, 5 in.
$500-600