Appraisal: Walter Anderson Pottery Cat, ca. 1945
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Appraisal: Walter Anderson Pottery Cat, ca. 1945
See David Rago appraise a Walter Anderson pottery cat, ca. 1945, in Vintage Phoenix, Hour 1.
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Appraisal: Walter Anderson Pottery Cat, ca. 1945
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See David Rago appraise a Walter Anderson pottery cat, ca. 1945, in Vintage Phoenix, Hour 1.
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Blue is my favorite color.
APPRAISER: And you've had it for how long?
GUEST: Mmm, I would say around 20 years.
APPRAISER: Well, this is a different kind of appraisal for me, 'cause I'm not exactly sure what you've got here.
GUEST: Okay.
APPRAISER: And this is going to entail a little bit of additional research.
You saw me looking this over for a mark.
GUEST: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
APPRAISER: There is, there isn't a mark on this.
I've been all over this thing, and there's no mark that I could find, which would have made life a lot easier for all of us.
GUEST: Right.
APPRAISER: But what I saw initially-- stylization.
Not only the, the colors that were used, but the way the colors are applied to this piece.
Let's show it in the round.
The design is very unusual, and, and...
GUEST: Mm-hmm.
APPRAISER: ...to my eye, peculiar to, uh, Shearwater Pottery from Ocean Springs, Mississippi, which started in 1928 and which was destroyed, uh, when Katrina went through there a few years back.
GUEST: Oh.
APPRAISER: They're rebuilding it, but it's a very famous pottery, primarily run by Walter and Mac Anderson, who did most of the decorating through the '30s and '40s and '50s.
Walter is recognized as an artistic genius.
Couldn't really socialize.
He was left to himself to decorate and design.
But this is what he did-- the colors, the patterns.
What also I noticed, where the clay shows through and then the clay color inside looks to me like Shearwater Pottery, so I'm, I'm pretty sure that's what it is.
And it's what we have to do when we don't have a mark.
I did research, there's not an exact picture of this in any of the books that I found.
And so we have to make certain educated guesses.
So I'm guessing you got a piece of Shearwater pottery, Shearwater cat.
In terms of the decorative style, it's faience technique, background color laid down and then decorative elements in darker colors starkly painted against it.
If this is not Shearwater, it's a nice ceramic cat, probably from the '40s or '50s...
GUEST: Mm-hmm.
APPRAISER: ...worth $300, $400, $500 at auction.
GUEST: Okay.
APPRAISER: If it's a Shearwater cat, at auction, I think it's worth between $6,000 and $9,000.
GUEST: Whoa.
APPRAISER: It's a big difference, and it's a really good piece.
If this is by Walter Anderson and somebody paid between $10,000 and $20,000 for it, I wouldn't be surprised.
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