Description:
Albert Valentien for Rookwood Pottery Silver Overlay Vase
Cincinnati, Ohio, 1905
Early standard glaze with leaf and berry decorated with etched Gorham silver, bearing maker's flame mark, 553CW, and artist's cipher, ht. 12 in.
Estimate $600-800
glaze crazing, some lifting at shoulder between the two petaled flowers.
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