# Sturgis Laurence - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-30T21:01:35.669Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 15
- Lots with prices: 12
- First auction date: 2011-10-01
- Latest auction date: 2025-02-11
- Median realised price: $1,000
- Price range: $225 to $8,750

## Market Takeaway
Sturgis Laurence has 15 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,000. Category concentration is still broad. Recent 12-month volume is still light. These metrics reflect recorded public auction results and may not include private transactions or every premium outlier sale.

## How To Read This Data
- Use median \($1,000\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($500 to $2,604\) as the middle 50% of recorded sales.
- Auction prices can include buyer premiums or fees depending on house reporting, so compare on a like\-for\-like basis.
- Condition, provenance, size, and attribution confidence can move final value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 33.3% (4 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 66.7% (8 sales)
- $10,000\+: 0% (0 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 0
- Previous 12 months sales: 2
- Recent 12 months median: $0
- Previous 12 months median: $225
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-02-11
- Days since latest sale: 443
- Market velocity: inactive

## Top Auction Houses
- Toomey & Co. Auctioneers: 8 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 4 lots
- Akiba Galleries: 2 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots

## Top Categories
- N/A

## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-02-11 | Sturgis Laurence for Rookwood Pottery "Caravaggio" Glazed Earthenware Vase | Akiba Galleries | $225
2. 2024-09-17 | Sturgis Laurence for Rookwood Pottery "Caravaggio" Glazed Earthenware Vase | Akiba Galleries | $500
3. 2021-11-10 | Sturgis Laurence \(1870\-1961\) for Rookwood Pottery earthenware Sea Green glaze pillow vase with vision of galleon emerging through fo... | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers | $1,000
4. 2021-11-10 | Sturgis Laurence \(1870\-1961\) for Rookwood Pottery earthenware Sea Green glaze vase with yellow tulip decoration, shape number 925D 4... | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers | $500
5. 2021-11-10 | Sturgis Laurence \(1870\-1961\) for Rookwood Pottery earthenware Standard Glaze vase with the Native American portrait of "No\-Stle Apac... | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers | $1,000
6. 2020-09-13 | Sturgis Laurence \(1870\-1961\) for Rookwood Pottery Standard Glaze vase with irises, \#907B 7"dia x 17"h | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers | $2,500
7. 2018-09-16 | Sturgis Laurence \(1870\-1961\) for Rookwood Pottery Jos. Jefferson as Rip Van Winkle stein, \#820 6 7/8"w x 5"d x 9 5/8"h | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers | $3,120
8. 2016-09-10 | Sturgis Laurence \(1870\-1961\) for Rookwood Pottery Portrait vase, \#732B 5"dia x 10.5"h | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers | N/A
9. 2015-12-05 | Sturgis Laurence \(1870\-1961\) for Rookwood Pottery Big Navajo Native American portrait vase, \#787C 7"dia x 11"h | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers | $5,000
10. 2015-06-17 | STURGIS LAURENCE \(1870\-1961\) for Rookwood 'Rushing Eagle' a Vase, 1898 | Bonhams | £1,500
11. 2015-06-06 | Sturgis Laurence \(1870\-1961\) for Rookwood Pottery Portrait vase, \#732B 5"dia x 10.5"h | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers | N/A
12. 2014-03-01 | STURGIS LAURENCE \(1870 \- 1961\); BRUCE HORSFALL; ROOKWOOD; Two Standard Glaze mugs, one with portrait of Rip Van Winkle \(1896\), one with African\-American child \(1894\), Cincinnati, OH, 1896; Both with flame mark and signatures; 5 3/4", 4 3/4"; | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $875
13. 2014-03-01 | STURGIS LAURENCE \(1870 \- 1961\); ROOKWOOD; Sea Green vase with irises, Cincinnati, OH, 1901; Flame mark/I/804C/g and artist's cipher; 13" x 5"; Provenance: The Lillian Hoffman Collection; Malvina Solomon, 1969 | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $8,750
14. 2014-03-01 | STURGIS LAURENCE \(1870 \- 1961\); ROOKWOOD; Tall Standard Glaze vase with Indian portrait, "Ho\-Wear Comanche," Cincinnati, OH, 1900; Flame mark/S1577C/X/SL/title; 14 3/4" x 6"; Provenance: The Lillian Hoffman Collection. Purchased from Barry Friedman. | Rago Arts and Auction Center | N/A
15. 2011-10-01 | STURGIS LAURENCE; ROOKWOOD; Standard glaze Indian | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $2,604

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