Kentucky butter churn fetches auction record of $55,200
- December 28, 2010 15:53
In October, Knoxville-based Case Antiques Inc., Auctions and Appraisals sold an eight gallon stoneware butter churn, made and decorated in Maysville, Kentucky, by Isaac Thomas, for $55,200, a record price for Kentucky pottery.
The churn, described as a "lug-handled butter churn, labeled 'Kentucky 1836' in cobalt script" is the earliest known marked piece of Kentucky pottery, being both signed and dated.
It was sold to the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Winston-Salem, N.C.
