Lot 129
A Newcomb College Art Pottery Semi-Matte Glaze Candlestick, 1929, decorated by Anna Frances Simpson with a relief-carved jasmine motif, base marked with Newcomb cipher, decorator's mark, reg. no. RU85 and shape no. 329, height 3 1/2 in the lean years of the Great Depression, Miss Troy sent a number of Newcomb pieces to colleges, museums and civic organizations around the country. Correspondence found in the Tulane University archives from the 1933-34 academic years indicates that Miss Troy sent nine educational exhibitions of Newcomb work-one of which went to the University of Alabama and one to a high school in Minnesota.
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