A Margaret Cable / UND pottery vase Print Email 1929, Grand Forks, ND, inscribed date and signature ''M. Cable / 1929'' (Margaret Kelly Cable 1884 - 1960), and stamped blue mark ''University of North Dakota / Grand Forks, ND / Made at / School of Mines / M.D. Clay'', of spreading cylindrical form, glazed brown and incised with stylized wheat stalks and flickertails, 13'' H x 7.5'' Dia., est: $5000/7000 *Price Realized: $43,200.00 Note: Margaret Cable was trained at the Handicraft Guild of Minneapolis and later studied under Frederick H. Rhead and Charles F. Binns. Hired as the head of the newly founded ceramics department at the UND School of Mines in 1910, she worked there until 1949, teaching, experimenting with and promoting the use of the local clays, and, in her own words, producing ''design material particular to the prairies''. The Flickertail, also known as Richardson's ground squirrel, is native to the prairies of the northern United States and Southern Canada. Condition: Overall good condition. General scratches to glaze commensurate with age. Hairline cracks to base, likely firing cracks (do not extend through to interior).
A Margaret Cable / UND pottery vase Print Email 1929, Grand Forks, ND, inscribed date and signature ''M. Cable / 1929'' (Margaret Kelly Cable 1884 - 1960), and stamped blue mark ''University of North Dakota / Grand Forks, ND / Made at / School of Mines / M.D. Clay'', of spreading cylindrical form, glazed brown and incised with stylized wheat stalks and flickertails, 13'' H x 7.5'' Dia., est: $5000/7000 *Price Realized: $43,200.00 Note: Margaret Cable was trained at the Handicraft Guild of Minneapolis and later studied under Frederick H. Rhead and Charles F. Binns. Hired as the head of the newly founded ceramics department at the UND School of Mines in 1910, she worked there until 1949, teaching, experimenting with and promoting the use of the local clays, and, in her own words, producing ''design material particular to the prairies''. The Flickertail, also known as Richardson's ground squirrel, is native to the prairies of the northern United States and Southern Canada. Condition: Overall good condition. General scratches to glaze commensurate with age. Hairline cracks to base, likely firing cracks (do not extend through to interior).
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