Neal Auction 2012

W denotes the lot is illustrated at www.nealauction.com 77 W 331. A Large Art Pottery Floor Vase , early 20th c., collar with geometric and floral design, the tapering body with concave front and back, encircled with a flock of birds, height 33 3/4 in., diameter 13 1/2 in. $500/700 332. Anna Heywood Taylor (American/South Carolina, 1879-1956) , “Harvesting Rice”, 1937, linocut on paper, pencil-signed, dated and numbered “7”, image 9 1/2 in. x 12 1/2 in., sheet 12 1/2 in. x 16 1/2 in., framed. $1000/1500 Note: Born to a prominent Columbia, South Carolina family, Anna Heyward Taylor first studied under William Merritt Chase in 1900. After traveling many years including stints in Japan working with Helen Hyde, and in Provincetown studying with other prominent printmakers, she settled back in Charleston in the late 1920s. It was there she undertook illustrating This Our Land by Chalmers Murray. The book told the history of the Agricultural Society of South Carolina and its historic cash crops: indigo, rice, tobacco and cotton. This scene, retold in the distinctive white-line of her linocut, Taylor illustrates the rice harvest. W 333. Elizabeth O’Neill Verner (American/ South Carolina, 1883-1979) , “A Bit of Legare Street, Charleston”, etching, pencil-signed and titled, image 5 in. x 3 1/4 in., framed. $600/900 W 334. Elizabeth O’Neill Verner (American/ South Carolina, 1883-1979) , “In Old Charleston”, etching, pencil-signed lower right, pencil-titled lower left, image 2 1/2 in. x 2 in., framed. $300/500 W 335. Elizabeth O’Neill Verner (American/ South Carolina, 1883-1979) , “Old Gateway, Charleston”, etching, pencil-signed and titled, image 2 1/2 in. x 2 in., framed. $300/500 W 323. A George Ohr Art Pottery “Scrottle” Tile , c. 1900, wavy beaded edge, inscribed “Biloxi”, 3 in. x 6 1/2 in; together with a 1904 postcard sent from The Biloxi Pottery. $500/700 W 324. A Shearwater Art Pottery Vase , c. 1930, cast by Peter Anderson, mottled antique green glaze, impressed mark, height 9 1/2 in. $500/700 325. A Newcomb College Art Pottery Matte Glaze Vase , 1915, decorated by Cynthia Littlejohn with a relief- carved motif of oleander blossoms, base marked with Newcomb cipher, decorator’s mark, Joseph Meyer’s potter’s mark and reg. no. HE91, height 4 in. $800/1200 326. A Newcomb College Art Pottery Matte Glaze Cylindrical Vase , 1926, decorated by Sadie Irvine with a relief-carved design of wild rice, base marked with Newcomb cipher, decorator’s mark, shape no. 318 and reg. no. PU24, height 6 3/4 in., diameter 2 3/4 in. $2500/3500 W 327. A Newcomb College Art Pottery Experimental Vase , c. 1900-10, oxblood over blue glaze liner design faintly visible, copper red vase, base marked with Newcomb cipher and Joseph Meyer’s potter’s mark, height 7 1/2 in., accompanied by a 1922 Newcomb College tuition receipt. $500/700 W 328. A Shearwater Art Pottery Covered Vessel , the cover surmounted by a bust of a “mammy”, sgraffito decoration of African-American figures, impressed mark, height 13 1/2 in. $500/700 W 329. A Newcomb College Art Pottery Hand-Built Nursery Rhyme Tile , 1930s, decorated by Leona Fischer Nicholson, illustrating “Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater”, verso with incised Newcomb cipher, decorator’s mark, “HB” for hand-built and “M”, 5 in. x 4 3/4 in. $500/750 W 330. A San Ildefonso Black-on- Black Pottery Vase , the globular form with scalloped decoration, base signed “Maria & Julian”, height 3 in., diameter 4 7/8 in. $700/1000 326 325 332