BELL FAMILY, STRASBURG, SHENANDOAH VALLEY OF VIRGINIA
BELL FAMILY, STRASBURG, SHENANDOAH VALLEY OF VIRGINIA EARTHENWARE / REDWARE VASE / URN, white-slip glazed, urn form with a coggled-edge rim, incised shoulder ring, and lion-mask handles, punched drain hole in base. Solomon Bell or Samuel Bell and his sons, Strasburg, VA. 1870-1895. 12 7/8" H, 8" D rim.
Excellent condition for this form, chip to rim interior, some small flakes to exterior coggled rim decoration with interior and exterior wear, masks having minor glaze flake/wear with one having chip to nose. Firing imperfections, including separation on one mask, as made.
Literature: Parallels Wiltshire - Folk Pottery of the Shenandoah Valley, p. 42; and Manger - Pottery From the Shenandoah and Cumberland Valleys, p. 79.
Provenance: Property from the estate collection of Dan and Doris Chrisman, Roanoke, VA.
Condition Report: Excellent condition for this form, chip to rim interior, some small flakes to exterior coggled rim decoration with interior and exterior wear, masks having minor glaze flake/wear with one having chip to nose. Firing imperfections, including separation on one mask, as made.
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BELL FAMILY, STRASBURG, SHENANDOAH VALLEY OF VIRGINIA EARTHENWARE / REDWARE VASE / URN, white-slip glazed, urn form with a coggled-edge rim, incised shoulder ring, and lion-mask handles, punched drain hole in base. Solomon Bell or Samuel Bell and his sons, Strasburg, VA. 1870-1895. 12 7/8" H, 8" D rim.
Excellent condition for this form, chip to rim interior, some small flakes to exterior coggled rim decoration with interior and exterior wear, masks having minor glaze flake/wear with one having chip to nose. Firing imperfections, including separation on one mask, as made.
Literature: Parallels Wiltshire - Folk Pottery of the Shenandoah Valley, p. 42; and Manger - Pottery From the Shenandoah and Cumberland Valleys, p. 79.
Provenance: Property from the estate collection of Dan and Doris Chrisman, Roanoke, VA.
Condition Report: Excellent condition for this form, chip to rim interior, some small flakes to exterior coggled rim decoration with interior and exterior wear, masks having minor glaze flake/wear with one having chip to nose. Firing imperfections, including separation on one mask, as made.
