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678. Clarence Millet, A.N.A. (American/New Orleans, 18971959), “Chartres Street, New Orleans”, oil on canvas, signed lower right, “New Orleans Art League” label and artist’s card with title en verso, 20 in. x 26 in., original frame.
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$15000/25000 679. A Rare Shearwater Pottery Vase, c. 1937-40, thrown by Peter Anderson, decorated by James “Mac” 679 Anderson in low relief with images of Mac building his rammed earth house, antique green glaze, base marked with impressed dime-size Shearwater mark and initialed by Mac in sgraffito, height 7 3/4 in., diameter 6 3/4 in.; accompanied by a c. 1990 letter from Mac Anderson stating the approximate date of the piece and the reason for the design; also accompanied by a Shearwater Pottery Certificate of Authenticity, dated September 13, 2001. $5000/7000 Provenance: Acquired c. 1990 by the present owner. Exhibited: “An Introspective Mind”, The Walter Anderson Museum of Art, Ocean Springs, MS, 2007-2008. Illustrated: Stewart, Dod., Shearwater Pottery, p. 101.
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680. A Shearwater Pottery Vase, c. 1940, decorated by Walter Anderson with incised and slip glazed design of a duck with spread wings, impressed quarter size Shearwater mark, height 5 1/4 in. $1200/1800 681. A Newcomb College Art Pottery Vase, 1921, decorated by Henrietta Davidson Bailey with Cherokee roses modeled in low relief, matte glaze with blue, green, pink and yellow underglaze, base marked with Newcomb cipher, decorator’s mark, Joseph Meyer’s potter’s mark, reg. no. LR47, and shape no. 147, h. 6 3/8 in. $3000/5000