They should have suspected that it was a 1970s high school ceramics class project when they saw "bong" on the side.
Posted on 05/12/2016 2:58:34 PM PDT by lowbridge
PBS favorite “Antiques Roadshow” has admitted that it mistakenly claimed a grotesque jug dated back to the 19th century, when it was really from a 1970s Oregon high school art class.
Appraiser Stephen Fletcher originally said that the piece, featured in a January episode of the show, was worth up to $50,000.
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The weird pot had migrated about 60 miles from its birthplace at Churchill High School in the years between 1973 or 74 and last summer, when new owner Alvin Barr was thrilled that his estate sale find could be worth a small fortune.
Soule and friends contacted “Antiques Roadshow” to prove he piece’s true origin.
Fletcher issued a new appraisal, estimating that the artwork could still fetch up to $4,000 at auction and saying is “still not bad for a high schooler in Oregon.”
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I got me some old fridge art and finger paintings that are worth millions.
Looks cubist, to some degree...
I’ll betcha my back storm door is worth something; it’s got my dog Seymour’s nose art on it.
My mom has a clay Easter basket I made with a “map” of the nation on one side, and the “flag” on the other.
I’m totally expecting a big payday soon as neither the flag, nor Easter, are allowed in schools anymore. Makes it a rare specimen!
It might have been worth something once, but that's all in the pasta now
Sounds like you've been around the Braque a few times
They should have suspected that it was a 1970s high school ceramics class project when they saw "bong" on the side.
At least it’s still considered ugly. A grotesquerie in any age. Karl Rosenkrantz would appreciate-un it.
Well, it’s weird but the colors used, the textures, proportion and the overall design is very good for a high school art student. I’ve seen plenty of authentic face jugs, which can be bizarre themselves. They weren’t worth all that much until recent decades. I don’t know why but in several instances I recall seeing them partially buried with only the face showing, in backyards and such.
I remember watching this episode and thinking that the piece looked too new.
It will be worth something now just for its celebrity status (though $4000 sounds too high).
If the woman’s pottery from high school actually fetches $4,000.00 she needs to open a pottery studio and capitalize upon it. I was in art class all through jr high and high school, BFA in graphic arts. I never mastered the pottery wheel, but it’s amazing to watch someone who has. There are worse ways to make a living than making cool stuff out of clay and baking it.
Ha! A lot of the stuff on that program looks like Goodwill Krapo.
I had a high school art teacher in 1980. She gave me poor grades because I didn’t like doing abstract stuff.
So I made a flowerpot that was butt ugly. I literally dipped my hand in the different glaze colors without even looking at what color they were. Then I flicked the glaze onto the pot and put the ugly thing in the kiln.
Somehow, I got an A. My wife found it a few months ago and put it I out living room. I’m looking at it now.
Antiques Roadshow here I come
Will Sasso did a great skit on I think Mad TV where everything turned out wrong. Great Great Grandma’s Civil War dress was from a whorehouse. The cleaned candelabra was now worthless - uncleaned a fortune.
About twelve years ago I ran an office of SAIC in Quantico VA that was in a small strip mall. There was a Thrift store in the mall and one of my guys bought three “paint-by-numbers” pictures and put the up against the far wall of the office. When I came back from the Base and saw them, I asked him how he got my childhood paintings. Sure enough my stylized initials were on the paintings. He let me buy two but kept one for himself.
The world is full of strange connections! ;-)
-PJ
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Damn ; after your explanation I was thinking you would be looking for a hammer, then after the deed was done “OOPS, sorry Babe that really was an accident”.
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