Archive For January, 2010

Wm. Kelly Young Collection: Anatomy of a Bell Redware Dog

By Mark Zipp | January 27, 2010

Large-Sized Standing Redware Dog by the Bell Family. To be sold in the Wm. Kelly Young Collection on 1/30/10.

An important large-sized redware dog by the Bell family will cross the block in our January 30th auction of the William Kelly Young collection. Measuring 8 3/4″ long by 8 5/8″ tall, the figure is one of a small number of this size known to have been produced by members of the Bell family in [...]

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The Anna Pottery School: Texas Stoneware Snake Jug by John L. Stone

By Brandt Zipp | January 23, 2010

Texas stoneware temperance snake jug by John L. Stone

The Texas stoneware snake jug we will be selling on January 30 was one of the highlights of Kelly Young’s prominent collection of antique American utilitarian ceramics. We featured a picture of Mr. Young holding the jug on the title page of our current catalog (see below). The jug is also one of the most [...]

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Kelly Young Collection: Moravian Animal Bottles

By Mark Zipp | January 20, 2010

Moravian Redware Squirrel Bottle by Rudolph Christ, Salem, NC. To be sold in the Wm. Kelly Young Collection on 1/30/10.

Two exciting redware (or earthenware) animal bottles will cross the block in our January 30th auction of the William Kelly Young Collection. Both were purchased by Mr. Young in 1993 at Christie’s in New York City, in a sale that included several other fine examples of American redware and some stoneware. Both of these bottles [...]

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Absalom Bixler: Earthenware Potter of Lancaster County, PA

By Brandt Zipp | January 8, 2010

Bottom of the A. Bixler pot, showing the maker's mark.

The case of the “Absalom Bixler” group of redware is a very interesting one. Redware pieces bearing his name, or clearly by the same maker as those that do, have long stood as landmark pieces within the canon of antique American utilitarian ceramics. Decorated with applied, bright yellow and green figures of birds and cats, [...]

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Wm. Kelly Young Auction: Spitting Snake Jug Slithers Into Sale

By Mark Zipp | January 5, 2010

The harvest jug's snake head spout in action.

Last August, when my father, brother, and I, traveled down to Ft. Worth, Texas, to take possession of Mr. Young’s collection, an interesting stoneware harvest jug sitting on his living room table caught my eye. According to Young’s daughter, it had been purchased by Mr. Young at an antiques show in New York City during [...]

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