Ruth Erickson for Grueby Faience Company: career timeline

· Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 20 of 29 lots (69% of works) have a usable creation date; the others are listed at the end by the decade they were sold. Each work is shown once, even when it sold more than once.

Ruth Erickson for Grueby Faience Company: works at auction by decade the work was made. Each work counted once; medians use sold works only, in US dollars.

Decade made	Works	Sold	Median sold price	Main medium
1890s	16	16	$5.5kSign up	Sculpture
1900s	4	4	$13.9kSign up	Sculpture

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Year madeHeight (in)Width (in)MediumSubject

1890s 16 works

Sold: 16 of 16
Median: $5.5kSign up
Average: $7.4kSign up
Typical size: 9.5 × 6.5 in (24 × 16 cm)
Mediums: Sculpture (16)
Subjects: —

c. 1899 Vase with quatrefoils$5.1kSign up
c. 1899 Vase with leaves$5.3kSign up
c. 1899 Vase with leaves$3.3kSign up
c. 1899 Blue vase with leaves$1.5kSign up
c. 1899 Rare vase with daffodils$8.3kSign up
c. 1899 Fine and Large vase with irises$8.8kSign up
c. 1899 Vase with leaves and buds$4.8kSign up
c. 1899 Vase with leaves$8.1kSign up
c. 1899 Exceptional vase with daffodils$21.3kSign up
c. 1899 Vase with leaves and buds$5.6kSign up
c. 1899 Rare multicolor vase with daffodils$25kSign up
c. 1899 Vase$1.4kSign up

Show 4 more (1890s)

c. 1899 Rare vase with leaves and buds$4.5kSign up
c. 1899 vase$1.6kSign up
c. 1899 jardinière with cinquefoils$8.8kSign up
c. 1899 vase with leaves and buds$5.6kSign up

1900s 4 works

Sold: 4 of 4
Median: $13.9kSign up
Average: $16.3kSign up
Typical size: 13.5 × 7 in (34 × 18 cm)
Mediums: Sculpture (4)
Subjects: Flowers & still life (1)

c. 1905 Exceptional and Tall vase with irises$23.8kSign up
c. 1905 Rare and Exceptional floor vase$35kSign up
c. 1905 vase with flowers$4.1kSign up
1909 Rare vase with Jack-in-the-Pulpits$2.3kSign up

Creation date not recorded

9 works have no cataloged or signed date. They are grouped here by the decade they were last sold, which says nothing about when they were made.

Undated, sold in the 2010s 4 works

Sold: 4 of 4
Median: $2.9kSign up
Average: $3.2kSign up
Typical size: —
Mediums: Other (4)
Subjects: —

sold 2017 Squat Two-color Vase$3.3kSign up
sold 2018 Vase$1.4kSign up
sold 2018 Lobed vase$2.5kSign up
sold 2019 Fine and rare multicolor vase$5.6kSign up

Undated, sold in the 2020s 5 works

Sold: 1 of 5
Median: $3.3kSign up
Average: $3.3kSign up
Typical size: —
Mediums: Other (5)
Subjects: Flowers & still life (1)

sold 2022 unusual pumpkin-colored earthenware vase$3.3kSign up
sold 2025 Vase with overlapping leavesUnsold
sold 2025 Vase with tobacco flowers and leavesUnsold
sold 2025 Vase with leavesUnsold
sold 2026 Vase with leavesUnsold

Medians and averages count sold works only (each work's most recent sale), in US dollars at the sale-date rate. Works cataloged as “attributed to”, “circle of” or similar are left out. All Ruth Erickson for Grueby Faience Company auction results →