FREDERICK GEORGE RICHARD ROTH Squat stoneware lidded vessel, its base covered in gunmetal, indigo, and green flambe glaze, the sculptural lid modeled as a brown bear. (Illustrated in International Studio magazine, vol.36, no 143 (January 1909) in an article by Arthur Hoeber, "Mr. Roth's Ceramics.") Some chips and touch-ups. Each component signed FGRR. 11" x 9"

"We have always liked sculpture and have sold our share of bronzes and marbles. We were therefore attracted to this pottery work by the internationally renowned American sculptor, Frederick Roth, whose work, it turns out, is all around us. Born in Brooklyn in 1872, he was educated in Europe when his father's cotton business took the family to Germany. He learned sculpture in Vienna and in Berlin. He also learned pottery techniques at the Staffordshire potteries in England, and in Stuttgart, Germany, and for a time, modeled animal figures for the Doulton Potteries. He maintained a studio in New York from 1890, and participated in the St.Louis 1904 and the Panama Pacific Expositions. He taught at the National Academy, was President of the National Sculpture Society, and in 1925, won a major prize for a Central Park favorite, his statue of Siberian husky hero, Balto (the subject of a Disney movie.) As chief sculptor for the New York City Parks Department from 1934 to 1936, he produced fountain statues and tile reliefs at the Central Park Zoo, Mother Goose near 72nd Street and Alice in Wonderland, near 76th Street. His work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and Brookgreen Gardens. Morristown has his equestrian George Washington. He died in Englewood, NJ in 1944. His ceramics are extremely rare. We have seen only the lid produced as a paperweight, in a museum collection." Illustrated in International Studio vol.36, no 143 (January 1909) in an article by Arthur Hoeber, "Mr. Roth's Ceramics."