Royal Hickman #571 art pottery planter or centerpiece. Planter measures 15 1/4" long x 3 1/2" tall x 4 1/2" deep. No cracks, chips or repairs. Crazing throughout, light surface wear. Hickman worked with Haeger Potteries in the 1930s and again in the 1950s, but during the mid-1940s, operated his own pottery business out of Tampa. This piece is from the personal collection of renowned Florida collector Alfred R. Frankel, MD and author of the book “Old Florida Pottery: Potters in Paradise” being “The Collector’s Guide to History, Makers and Marks, 1859-1966.”