Bailey Auction
Great Hand Made Pottery - Pottery Supplies and Equipment - Nice Shop Tools
Saturday July 11th at 10:00 a.m.
Location: 6240 White Eyes Rd. New Concord Ohio 43762. From I-70 Take S.R. 83 north 4 miles to a left on Norfield Lane. Then a ˝ mile to a right on White Eyes Rd. 1.5 Miles to Auction on the Right. Schafer Auction Service Signs from I-70.
About Mary Bailey:
I have lived with art my entire life, visiting art museums as a child, going to the park or zoo armed with a sketchbook rather than a ball or frisbee. My work in clay has been primarily self taught after a brief apprenticeship with my Mom, Patricia Oberloier, M.F.A.. My pottery is all made by hand, either wheel thrown or hand built. My handles are pulled, a process that gives them a particular liveliness. The consistency in thrown forms comes from weighing the clay and measuring as I throw, as well as 27 years of experience! Nothing is ever ram pressed or poured, nor do I employ people to produce for me. Nothing is ever purchased fired once to be glazed by me. I make everything from wad of stoneware clay to finished wares. I mix my own glazes and do all of the decorating with a little bamboo brush, no patterns or stencils. On the average, a pot takes about three weeks to complete. The pottery is fired to 2,400 degrees in a gas kiln, a process taking 3-4 days from the time the kiln is loaded to when it finally has cooled enough to unload. I made all of the plaster slump and drape forms in the studio myself, they aren't purchased, no one else has the same. The functional work, cooking and serving vessels are safe to use in the oven, microwave and dishwasher. No lead is used in any part of the process.
Occasionally I take a little artistic trip and make one of a kind pieces in raku, pit firing or carbon trailed vessels. The pit fired work is very silky and smooth with black from the smoke and color flashes from salts, wires, banana peels and so on. The black lines on the carbon trailed pots are hair that is applied to a VERY hot pot, it burns into the surface. Both the carbon trailed and pit fired vessels are extremely labor intensive. Along with the rake, they are also very unpredictable!
Over the years I sold my functional work at art fairs, preferring the direct contact with my customers over wholesaling or consignment. My work in raku, pit firing and carbon trailing sold at art fairs AND galleries in Michigan, Ohio, Santa Fe New Mexico and Biloxi Mississippi.
Pottery and Pottery Equipment: 200+ Pieces of Mary Bailey’s Hand made Functional Pottery. Includes: Pitchers; Canisters; Serving Plates; Baskets; Pie Plates; Soup Tureens; Vases; Baking Dishes; Warming Tiles; Colanders; Bowls; Piggy Banks; AND MORE. Nice Venco de-airing Power Pug Mill; Bailey Gas Kiln, Studio Model 38/24, Skut Electric Kiln for parts; Brent Wall Mount Clay Extruder; Brent Slab Roller with legs and shelf, canvas and shims; Rolling work Table; Brent Model CXC Electric Pottery Wheel; Brent Model C Electric pottery Wheel; Lots of Pottery Molds; Lots of Pottery Bats; Clay Hand Tools; Powder Glazes; Glaze Bench; AND MORE.
Shop Tools and Equipment: Snap On Scissors Car Lift; Motor Puller and Stand; Sand Blaster; Push Mower; Super Bronco Troy Bilt Tiller; Oxyacetylene Tanks and torches; Mix and Go Portable Cement Mixer; Poulan 2150 Chain Saw; Ultra Air Compressor and Tank; Big Stand Up Snap On Tool Box With All the Tools; Battery Chargers; 2 Dollies; Aluminum Construction Stilts; (2) 20’ Aluminum Extension Ladders; (2) E-Z Pop up Tents; Dewalt Cut Off Saw and Drill; (2) Bench grinders; (8) Rolling Shelve Units; Nice Pile of Poplar Lumber; Nice Pile of Oak and Pine Lumber; Lots of Plumbing and Electrical odds and ends; Aluminum Step Ladder; Saw Horses; Lots of Misc hand and power tools; Delta Table Saw; Shop Vac; Triple Beam Scales; AND MORE.
Freezers/Household: Frigidaire Up Right Commercial Deep Freezer; Gibson Heavy Duty Up Right Deep Freezer; Kenmore Chest Freezer, all 3 like new. Newer Propane BBQ Grill; Nice Modern Flat Wall Pine Cupboard; Round Oak Table with 4 chairs; Nice Modern Couch; 4 Piece Cherry Set, computer desk, 2 swivel chairs, triangular table ; Old Chest; New Mason Jars; Old Cordova Guitar; Old Saxophone; Electric Guitar; Paper cutter; Food Dehydrator; AND MORE.
This will be a very clean auction with some of the neatest pottery you have ever seen. Please be on time… we will be starting at 10 am. Merchandise can only be viewed auction day. Call Eli Schafer at 740-509-1000 with any questions.
Terms and Conditions: Cash or Good Check with Proper ID
Sale by order of: Mary Bailey
Sale Conducted By:
Auctioneers:
Fred C. Schafer & Eli Schafer
740-838-5715 or 740-509-1000
These auctioneers are licensed and bonded in favor of the state of Ohio. Any announcements sale day take precedence over any ad material.
