RED WING, MINNESOTA STONEWARE SOUVENIR FIGURAL PIGS, LOT OF TWO, the larger with a thick semi-translucent Rockingham-style brown glaze and the smaller with a mostly solid Albany slip-style dark brown glaze, both free-standing on four legs with heads and tails angled to the right, unglazed undersides of feet and incised/unglazed details to eyes and mouths, hollow-molded bodies each with pierced venting hole to undersides. Red Wing, MN. Late 19th century. 2 1/8" H x 4 3/4" L smaller, 3 3/8" H x 7 1/4" L larger.
Literature: Parallels Gary and Bonnie Tefft - Red Wing Potters & Their Wares, Second Edition, p. 78 and DePasquale/Peterson - Red Wing Collectibles, p. 134.
Catalogue Note: The larger pig offered here illustrates the production size of Red Wing's typical so-called "Blind Pigs", as they are described in the 1896 Union Stoneware Co. price list, available wholesale for "12 1/2 cents" each. The smaller seems to be significantly rarer, with very few auction records that we can find. It does not seem to have been a typical "production" piece based on known price lists, although multiple examples of this size are known, and discussed in both the Teffts' book and DePasquale/Peterson's guide. The example here has some small solid bits inside the body which rattle when shaken, suggesting it could have been used as a child's toy / rattle, although this is only conjecture.

Very good overall condition, the smaller pig mostly undamaged with the exception of a shallow slice or wide nick off the edge of its nose and some chipping/losses to the left eartip; the larger pig with one small nick to left ear and with both the front and rear right feet having been broken off and glued, with some paint touchup to the rear foot.