Lot #: 435
Price Realized: $143.75
($125 hammer, plus 15% buyer's premium)
PLEASE NOTE: This result is 10 years old, and the American ceramics market frequently changes. Additionally, small nuances of color, condition, shape, etc. can mean huge differences in price. If you're interested in having us sell a similar item for you, please contact us here.
Unusual Glazed Redware Figure of an American Indian, American, 19th century, the figure of an American Indian with molded face and hand-modeled body, decorated with coleslaw headdress and clothing, holding a tomahawk and seated on a tree stump by a fire composed of hand-modeled clay logs and extruded clay coleslaw. Surface covered in a dark-brown lead-and-manganese glaze. Some old green paint to fire. Base broken into two pieces and reglued. Loss to tomahawk. An in-the-firing, glazed-over loss to the tip of an object in the Indian's other hand. Wear to surface. Shallow base chips. L 5 7/8" ; H 4 3/4".
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