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Rare Rookwood Aerial Blue scenic, Toohey, 8 3/4"

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Rare and important Aerial Blue vase in Dull Finish painted in 1895 by Sallie Toohey. Decoration consists of a young woman walking in a forest with a tiger at her side. In her right hand is a baton wrapped with bunting which trails out behind her, perhaps blown by an invisible wind. Marks include the Rookwood logo, the date, shape number 589 C, the artist incised monogram and the number "273" bracketed by crescent moons, trial marks of Joseph Bailey Sr., Rookwood's ceramic engineer. The clay body of the vase is blue and all decoration is done with shades of white on the blue ground. S.G. Burt notes on page 116 of "2,292 Pieces of Early Rookwood Pottery in the Cincinnati Art Museum in 1916" that item 55 is an "Aerial Blue, smear glaze (Dull Finish) and item 64 is an "Aerial Blue bisc(uit)." Height 8 3/4 inches. Uncrazed and extremely clean.

Woman with tiger, uncrazed

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