Lot #: 80
Price Realized: $4,600.00
($4,000 hammer, plus 15% buyer's premium)
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Auction Highlight: October 29, 2011 Auction | Anna Pottery
Fine Anna Pottery Stoneware Snake Jug, Incised "Little Brown Jug / by / Anna Pottery / 1880," Wallace and Cornwall Kirkpatrick, Anna, IL, rotund jug with rounded foot, the handle in the form of a hand-modeled snake with scaled body, circular eyes, and large mouth. Surface covered in a mottled Albany slip glaze. Provenance: A fresh-to-the-market example consigned from Florida. Near mint condition with a minor base chip. H 4 1/4".
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