Lot #: 362
Price Realized: $3,162.50
($2,750 hammer, plus 15% buyer's premium)
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Auction Highlight: March 2, 2013 Auction | Anna Pottery
Rare Anna Pottery Stoneware Snake Jug, Wallace and Cornwall Kirkpatrick, Anna, IL, circa 1885, slender cylindrical jug with sloped shoulder and narrow rounded spout, incised across the front "Little / Brown Jug". Handle in the form of a hand-modeled and applied snake with heavily-incised scales and face, coiled around the neck of the jug. Jug covered in a brown Albany slip glaze. Snake is grayish-colored, decorated with daubs of brown. A highly-prized ceramic folk art form. Chipping to interior of spout. H 6 1/4".
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