Lot #: 32
Price Realized: $1,320.00
($1,100 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
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Rare and Fine Tanware Bust, OH or possibly Western PA origin, circa 1885, hand-modeled bust of a mustached man wearing a jacket and bow tie with incised details throughout. Composed of a grayish clay with brown slip highlights to the hair and mustached. Provenance: George H. Meyer Collection; Ex-Herbert Hemphill Collection; Ex-David Good. Excellent, essentially as-made condition. H 5".
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