Sold for:
$259
$259
Pair of Rookwood Pottery Rook Bookends and Two Books, the bookends, made in 1916, feature a standing rook between the pages of an open book surrounded by leafy branches, mottled brownish green and blue glaze; sold with a book entitled Shakespeare's Sweetheart, by Sara Hawks Sterling and illustrated by Clara Elsene Peak, George W. Jacobs & Co., 1905; and Sonnets from the Portuguese with Lyric Interludes, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Paul Elder and Company, San Francisco, 1910, (corner chips on bookends, toning and spine tear on one book), bookends ht. 6 1/2, dp. 6 in.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2001-06-02
