3 Primitive American Glazed Pottery Figures "Musical Beasts". Possibly from The George Ohr Estate. Unsigned. Minor chips to feet, one with glaze loss and glaze repair. Measures 6-1/4" H. All Items Are third party shipping or free local pick-up within 60 days of end of sale. Please review our terms. Provenance: Purchased by the previous owner (a NJ antique dealer and a contemporary of Mr. Carpenter) in the late 1960's from The James (Jim) Carpenter Estate, Montague, New Jersey. A 2019 hand written note from the previous owner accompanies this lot, please see the photo. For further information regarding Mr. James Carpenter and his connection to George Ohr, please see this article: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/stories/articles/2018/2/5/who-was-jim-carpenter From the article: "James Carpenter, a small-town barber from Montague, New Jersey, was a part-time antiques dealer and collector. In 1968 he and his wife had traveled south from Northern New Jersey on a routine hunting expedition for antique cars and auto parts. Along the way, they encountered George Ohrs' Biloxi homestead and auto junkyard business — together with the family's vast inventory of eccentric, and very dusty, pottery. Seeing an opportunity, Carpenter made the Ohrs an offer for the whole lot. And although the Ohr brothers rebuffed his first and a few subsequent offers, they eventually settled on a price (somewhere in the vicinity of $100,000, according to Ohr family oral history). Carpenter personally hauled the cache of some 10,000 pieces — a motley assortment of masterpieces, knickknacks, and everything between — north to New Jersey"