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Lot 36
Sale 2088 - A Cut Above: The Barbershop Collection of James Carpenter, Part III
Aug 1, 2024
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$600 -
800
Price Realized
$953
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Lot Description
A Rare Transfer Printed Porcelain Perfumed Bear Grease Pot Lid and Base
Mid-19th Century
identified to perfumier Xavier Bazin and depicting two bears in a mountainous, forested landscape, enclosed in a stylized geometric border.
Height 2 inches x diameter 3 1/4 inches.
Inventoried as #BJ 137 in Sonny Jackson's American Pot Lids (1987). The distinctive border sets this apart as a rare example, one of fewer than five known extant lids.
Property from the Collection of James Carpenter, Montague, New Jersey
This lot is located in Cincinnati.