Last week, I posted a story to this website, titled, A 19th Century Painted Stoneware Urn with Serpent Handles Made at the Portland Stoneware Company in Portland, Maine, where I wrote, "But unlike the sewer tile objects (made in Portland), this urn was manufactured with a different intent, whereas this is a rare single piece decorative urn manufactured with serpent handles."
Nevertheless, I have always regarded the large sewer tiles urns made in Portland as some of the best decorative sewer tile objects produced anywhere in America in the nineteenth or twentieth century. Furthermore, five good examples of this type of production sold last night in an online auction by Gary R. Wallace Auctioneers in Brookfield, New Hampshire.
The urns were consigned as part of a large single owner estate in Farmington, New Hampshire; the sale has been divided into two separate parts, where the remainder of the estate will be sold online on June 12th.
Each urn was also impressed with the maker's mark, "Portland Stone Ware Co." Four of the urns were manufactured with pedestal bases, while the fifth was either missing its base or was never manufactured with one. They all sold reasonably with the highest price being $500 plus the buyer's premium.
Here are links to each lot which includes the auction result:
Note: For more information about this type of production - see my seventh book, titled, From One Town Came Many: The Red Earthenware Industry of Ancient North Yarmouth, Maine: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/portland-made-ware-urn-14-c-26c417a949?objectID=188223870&algIndex=upcoming_lots_prod&queryID=413fa00f052e725467b2b7bfe4f51b99.
Five Late 19th Century Sewer Tile Urns from Portland, Maine
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