Lot 136: Rare Pail

SOLD: $15,000 (without buyer’s premium)
Estimate: $3,000 – $5,000

Pine, original robin’s egg blue painted exterior, very light blue painted interior, turned birch handle in red/orange bittersweet paint, iron bail and inverted teardrop shaped bail plates (painted black), two double inverted hoops with triangular ends, Enfield or Canterbury, NH, paper label on bottom “Bucket, Canterbury, from Jordan Collection”, 13 1/2″ h (to top of bail), 7 7/8″ h (to rim), 11 1/2″ dia, (ex. Ed Clerk).

Note:  Considered to be a “best” in color, condition, patina, and provenance.

Exhibited:  “Shaker, Original Paints & Patinas”, Muhlenberg College, Center for the Arts, Allentown, Pennsylvania, June Sprigg, Curator, November 1987 – January 1988, illustrated in color on cover, and numbered #42a. in the catalog.