Lot 32: Three Pails

SOLD: $3,400 (without buyer’s premium)
Estimate: $1,000 – $1,500

Pine, original green, bright orange/red and yellow painted exterior finishes, interiors of red and yellow pails painted creamy white, two black painted, hoops per pail, diamond bail plates, wire bails with finely turned birch handles, with medial scribe lines, Enfield or Canterbury, NH, 3 3/4”, 4 1/2” and 4 3/4” h; 5”, 6” and 5 3/4” dia, (Ed Clerk collection).

Note:
Interior of yellow pail is inscribed inside in pencil “East, and other illegible marks including numbers”.

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, catalog #42, “E. F. & G.”.