Auction: European Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2532BLocation: BostonDate / Time: January 07, 2011 6:00PM
Description:
Anna Pottery Stoneware Centennial Snake Jug, Illinois, 1876, chocolate brown glazed and intricately modeled with numerous coiled snakes surrounding a single frog, snake-form handle, inscribed Centennial 1876 Kirkpatrick Anna Pottery, Aura, Ill., ht. 9 in.
Note: Believed to be manufactured for the Philadelphia Exposition in 1876.
Estimate $20,000-30,000
Two snake heads missing and frog with 1/2 head missing.