Appraisal: Betty Davenport Ford Terracotta Sculpture, ca. 1970
Clip: Season 29 Episode 6 | 1m 53sVideo has Closed Captions
Appraisal: Betty Davenport Ford Terracotta Sculpture, ca. 1970
In Springs Preserve, Hour 3, Eric Silver appraises a Betty Davenport Ford terracotta sculpture, ca. 1970.
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Appraisal: Betty Davenport Ford Terracotta Sculpture, ca. 1970
Clip: Season 29 Episode 6 | 1m 53sVideo has Closed Captions
In Springs Preserve, Hour 3, Eric Silver appraises a Betty Davenport Ford terracotta sculpture, ca. 1970.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipGUEST: This is, uh, Felipe; it's a horse that we've had in the family for quite a long time.
My mother-in-law knew the artist that sculpted this, and I'm not sure whether she had her do it specifically for her or who picked out the design, but she did it probably back in 1970 or '60s.
APPRAISER: How did he get the name Felipe?
GUEST: (chuckles) My daughter was helping to move it into the house.
She just named him that and everybody has called him Felipe ever since.
APPRAISER: This is a sculpture by Betty Davenport Ford, and she studied with Maija Grotell.
And Maija Grotell was the leading ceramic artist of this period.
This period has become totally revisited.
GUEST: Mm-hmm.
APPRAISER: And artists like Grotell's works have been coming out and bringing fantastic prices.
This piece is made out of terracotta, so it's-it's clay, and has this wonderful glaze on it that's very even all over.
She did primarily animals... APPRAISER: ...every kind of animal in different sizes.
And this is a particularly large one.
So the form itself is really wonderful.
And the head is twisted back, and has this sort of ribbing to it, gives it three-dimensionality.
And here it's signed "Davenport Ford."
And overall it's in very, very good condition.
She was quite prominent.
She won a number of architectural awards.
She was named Woman of the Year in the L.A. Times in the 1950s.
I think a-a-a retail replacement value would probably be in the $15,000 to $20,000 range.
GUEST: Oh, my goodness.
Wow, I... Mm-hmm.
I like Felipe even more.
(laughs)
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