2021 Auction Highlights

$1,560,000

David Drake's April 12, 1858 Verse Jar: "A very Large Jar which has 4 handles / pack it full of fresh meats- then light candles"

WORLD AUCTION RECORD: AMERICAN POTTERY!!

$600,000

The Anna Pottery Liberty Monument, 1873

WORLD AUCTION RECORD: ANNA POTTERY

$420,000

Important David Drake Jug Inscribed "Lm says this handle will crack," Signed and Dated "Dave / June 28. 1854"

$240,000

1791-1792 New York City Stoneware Jug w/ Detailed Incised Sailing Ship, probably Crolius Family

$180,000

Boston Stoneware Jar for "Mrs. Elesebeth Tarbell 1806"

WORLD AUCTION RECORD: MASSACHUSETTS STONEWARE

$132,000

Christian Klinker, Nockamixon Township, Bucks County, PA Redware Jar, circa 1773-1798

$120,000

Stoneware Jar by the Enslaved Potter, Harry, Pottersville Stoneware Manufactory, Edgefield District, SC, circa 1839-1843

$96,000

Very Elaborate COMMERAW'S STONEWARE / CORLEARS HOOK / N. YORK Stoneware Jug

$84,000

"Morgan & Amoss / Makers / Baltimore / 1820" (William Morgan and Thomas Amoss) Stoneware Jar w/ Incised Birds

$66,000

August 5, 1851 Jar by Dave / David Drake, Enslaved Potter of Edgefield District, SC (Made at Lewis Miles' Stony Bluff Manufactory)

$54,000

J. & E. NORTON / BENNINGTON, VT Four-Gallon Stoneware Jug with Cobalt Standing Deer Scene

$51,000

Norton Stoneware Lion Jar, Impressed "GILES' & CO' ... VARIETY STORE CHERRY VALLEY"

$48,000

J. & E. NORTON / BENNINGTON, VT Stoneware Double Deer Crock

$42,000

Anna Pottery Salt-Glazed Stoneware Snake Jug w/ Detailed Rendering of the Pottery Building

$42,000

Rock Mills, Alabama, Figural Stoneware Masterwork

$39,000

Crolius Family, New York City, Stoneware Jar w/ Incised Bird and Foliate Motifs, circa 1800

$36,000

BOONVILLE, Missouri Stoneware Eagle Jar, 1832

WORLD AUCTION RECORD: MISSOURI STONEWARE

$34,800

Redware Dish attributed to Solomon Loy, Alamance County, NC, circa 1825-1840

$33,600

Large-Sized Alabama Stoneware Face Jug

$32,400

Rochester, New York, Stoneware Lion Cooler

$31,200

Fifty-Gallon Salt-Glazed Stoneware Beverage Cooler w/ Cobalt Decoration of George Washington, Signed "A.F.G.," probably Ohio

$31,200

HUBBELL & CHESEBRO, / GEDDES, N.Y. Peacock Churn

$30,000

J. SHEPARD, JR. / GEDDES. N.Y. Stoneware American Flag Crock, circa 1858-1859

$30,000

"C. Rhodes / Maker," Collin Rhodes Pottery, Edgefield District, SC, Stoneware Double-Handled Jug

$28,800

Attrib. Richard C. Remmey, Philadelphia, PA, Puzzle Mug

$27,600

Redware Face Jug, possibly New Jersey origin, October 5, 1844

$26,400

COWDEN & WILCOX / HARRISBURG, PA Batter Pail w/ Bird and Grapes

$24,000

Five-Gallon COWDEN & WILCOX / HARRISBURG Stoneware Cooler w/ Large Cobalt Grapes Decoration

$21,600

Folk Art Stoneware Jug attrib. William Capron, Albany, NY, circa 1800-1805

$21,600

D. MORGAN / N. YORK (David Morgan, Corlears Hook, Manhattan, NY) Stoneware Jar

$21,600

New Jersey Stoneware Jar w/ Incised Ship Decoration

$21,600

"Washington & Lafayette," Norwalk, CT Redware Loaf Dish

$20,400

Small-Sized Redware Dish with Two-Color Slip Decoration, PA origin, probably Berks County, Pennsylvania

$20,400

"Solomon / Loy / Refined / Stone Ware / 1855" Stoneware Jar (Alamance County, NC)

$20,400

COWDEN & WILCOX / HARRISBURG, PA Stoneware Jar w/ Swan-in-Wreath Decoration

$19,200

Attrib. Cheever Meaders, Cleveland, GA, Face Jug second quarter 20th century

$19,200

JOHN BELL (Waynesboro, PA) Pair of Redware Spaniel Figures in Original Paint

$18,000

Redware "John Adams" Platter, Norwalk, CT origin, circa 1796-1826

$18,000

Attrib. Richard C. Remmey, Philadelphia, PA, Stoneware Chicken Waterer

$18,000

Henry Harrison Remmey, Philadelphia, PA, 1856 Incised Stoneware Pitcher

$16,800

"Lanier Meaders / Cleveland / Ga" Early Period Face Jug

$15,600

"Lm" (Dave at Lewis Miles' Stoney Bluff Manufactory, Horse Creek Valley, Edgefield District, SC) Stoneware Jar

$15,600

Anna Pottery Salt-Glazed Stoneware Pig Flask with Elberton, GA Advertising

$15,600

Anna Pottery 1888 Salt-Glazed Stoneware Pig Bottle

$15,600

"Joseph Snow / 1817" Boston Stoneware Jar

$15,600

Five-Gallon David Drake Stoneware Jar, Inscribed "Lm / Aug 1. 1855" w/ Exceptional Glaze

$15,600

COWDEN & WILCOX / HARRISBURG, PA Stoneware Goat Jar

$14,400

Baltimore, MD Stoneware Water Cooler

$14,400

Large-Sized Philadelphia Redware Charger with Elaborate Yellow Slip Decoration

$14,400

BALDWIN'S CIDER Large Apple-Form Cooler

$13,200

T.H. WILLSON & CO / HARRISBURG, PA Stoneware Pitcher

$13,200

Anna Pottery 1884 Salt-Glazed Stoneware "Railroad and River Guide" Pig Flask

$12,000

"American StoneWare" Crock, Ohio origin

$12,000

J. NORTON & CO: / BENNINGTON VT. Flower Basket Crock

$11,400

LYONS (Thompson Harrington, Lyons, New York) Stoneware Rabbit Crock

$11,400

WHITES UTICA Stoneware Rooster Crock

$11,400

Boonville, Missouri Stoneware Snake Jug, Inscribed "B Heiberger. / 1891"

$10,800

WEST TROY / N.Y. / POTTERY Stoneware Jug w/ Oversized Flowering Urn Design

$10,800

JUNIATA POTTERY / BY. / G.M. MILLER, Newport, PA Redware Jar

$10,800

"John Grady / 1866," Shanksville, Somerset County, PA Redware Inkstand

$10,800

ALBANY, N.Y. Stoneware Crock w/ Elaborate Bird Decoration

$10,200

Heavily-Incised Stoneware Jug w/ Deer, Bust of a Gentleman, Etc., Northeastern U.S. origin

$10,200

B.C. MILBURN / ALEXA, Alexandria, Virginia Stoneware Slip-Trailed Water Cooler

$9,600

T. HARRINGTON / LYONS Stoneware Starface Churn

$9,600

Albany, NY Stoneware Rundlet w/ Incised Owl & Fish Designs, possibly Paul Cushman Pottery, circa 1810-1815

$9,600

J. EBERLY & BRO. / STRASBURG, VA Stoneware Poem Jar

$9,600

Berks County, PA Redware Plate w/ Crosshatched Three-Color Slip Decoration

$9,600

Small-Sized Pennsylvania Redware Loaf Dish with Two-Color Slip Decoration

$9,600

Eleven-Gallon Alkaline-Glazed Stoneware Jar, attributed to David Drake at Lewis Miles' Stony Bluff Manufactory, Horse Creek Valley, Edgefield District, SC

$9,000

F. STETZENMEYER. &. CO. / ROCHESTER. N.Y. Stoneware Jug

$9,000

Manhattan / New York City Incised Bird Jug, possibly Crolius family

$9,000

Chester Webster, Randolph County, NC, Incised Bird Jug

$8,400

S.C. DISPENSARY Jug attributed to J.G. Baynham, Trenton, Edgefield District, SC, late 19th century

$8,400

"UNION & LIBERTY" Eagle Crock by Ottman Bros., Fort Edward, New York

$8,400

JOHN BELL / WAYNESBORO, Pennsylvania Redware Jar Inscribed by Victor Conrad Bell for Itinerant Potter Daniel Coughlin

$8,400

Small-Sized Ohio Stoneware Harvest Jug with Cobalt Decoration

$8,400

1876 Anna Pottery (Kirkpatrick Bros.) Albany-Glazed Pig Bottle

$8,400

"Lanier Meaders / 9-9-78" Cleveland, GA Stoneware Snake Vase

$7,800

TRAPP & / CHANDLER Stoneware Jar (John Trapp and Thomas Chandler, Edgefield District, SC, c1848-1850)

$7,800

Alkaline-Glazed Stoneware Jug w/ Kaolin Slip Decoration, attributed to Collin Rhodes, Edgefield District, SC, c1850

$7,800

FORT EDWARD POTTERY CO. Bird-on-Stump Jug

$7,800

I. SEYMOUR / TROY FACTORY Stoneware Jar with Incised Bird-on-Branch Motif

$7,800

SPIRE & DUFF / NASHVILLE, TENN. Ten-Gallon Stoneware Churn, attrib. Enoch Fowler, Beaver, Pennsylvania

$7,800

1853 Stoneware Sugar Bowl, attributed to the Craven Family, Randolph or Moore County, NC

$7,800

"W * GAY / UTICA" Stoneware Jar for John Quincy Adams

$7,800

JUNIATA POTTERY / BY / G.M. MILLER Redware Jar w/ Relief Figural Decoration

$7,200

CHANDLER MAKER (Thomas Chandler, Edgefield District, South Carolina) Nine-Gallon Stoneware Jar

$7,200

N RAMEY & CO., Pottersville, Edgefield District, SC, Stoneware Jar, circa 1839

$7,200

BOSTON Stoneware Jar w/ Stamped Floral Designs, Jonathan Fenton, Boston, MA, circa 1794-1797

$7,200

Two-Gallon Stoneware Jug with In-the-Round Cobalt Ship and Lighthouse Scene, Northeastern U.S. origin, probably New Jersey, circa 1850

$7,200

Large-Sized Redware Loaf Dish with Elaborate Slip Decoration, Philadelphia, PA origin

$7,200

"Wm. Bingaman" Stoneware Harvest Jug, attributed to A.H. Rhodenbaugh, Middlebury, Ohio

$7,200

Old Bridge, New Jersey, Stoneware Jar with Incised Gentleman's Profile, circa 1820

$7,200

Anna Pottery New Year's Day Stoneware Pig Flask: "By / Anna Pottery / Jan. 1 1886"

$7,200

EDMANDS & CO, Barnabas Edmands, Charlestown / Boston, MA Stoneware "Bathing Beauty" Jug

$7,200

JOHN EBNER, Ohio Stoneware Harvest Jug

$7,200

Anna Pottery Albany-Glazed "Railroad and River Guide" Pig Flask, Wallace and Cornwall Kirkpatrick, Anna, IL

$7,200

Elaborate J. REMMEY / NEW-YORK Stoneware Jar w/ Impressed Decoration

$6,600

COWDEN & WILCOX / HARRISBURG, PA Jar w/ Elaborate Cobalt Decoration

$6,600

"C. Rhodes / Maker" (Collin Rhodes, Edgefield District, SC) Kaolin-Slip Decorated Stoneware Jug

$6,600

"C. Rhodes," Collin Rhodes, Edgefield District, SC Jug

$6,600

SERREN & DONALDSON (Augustus H. Serren and Thomas Donaldson, Denton County, Texas) Stoneware Jar, circa 1860

$6,600

COWDEN & WILCOX / HARRISBURG, PA Stoneware Crock w/ Bird Eating Worm

$6,600

"Jackson" Norwalk, Connecticut, Redware Plate

$6,600

WM. MOYER, Harrisburg, PA Stoneware Pitcher

$6,600

"C. Swain / G.W. Pope / J.H. Newman / Roseville Ohio" Stoneware Crock

$6,600

Anna Pottery "Black Hills" Pig Flask with Incised Railroad Map

$6,600

COWDEN & WILCOX, / HARRISBURG, PA Stoneware Jar w/ Floral Decoration

$6,600

Half-Gallon Stoneware Pitcher attrib. Henry Harrison Remmey, Philadelphia, PA

$6,000

J. & E. NORTON / BENNINGTON VT Stoneware Deer Crock

$6,000

J. & E. NORTON / BENNINGTON VT Stoneware Crock with Cobalt Deer and House Scene

$6,000

Six-Gallon Alkaline-Glazed Stoneware Jar, attributed to Harry at Pottersville, Edgefield District, SC, circa 1839-1843

$6,000

N. CLARK & CO. / LYONS Stoneware Jar with Incised and Impressed Potted Urn Decoration

$6,000

Open-Handled Stoneware Jar w/ Impressed Fish Design attrib. Jonathan Fenton, Boston, MA, late 18th century

$6,000

Attrib. Nathan Dicks, Randolph County, North Carolina Redware Pitcher

$6,000

F. STETZENMEYER & CO. / ROCHESTER, N.Y. Stoneware Crock w/ Lioness Decoration

$6,000

Anna Pottery "Railroad and River Guide" Stoneware Pig Flask, Dated 1890

$6,000

"Anna Pottery / 1879" Stoneware Frog Inkwell

$6,000

R. MORFORD Presentation Stoneware Jar w/ Incised Bird attrib. Nicholas Van Wickle, Old Bridge or Manasquan, NJ

$5,700

STEDMAN & SEYMOUR / NEW-HAVEN, Connecticut Incised Eagle Jug

$5,700

LIBERTY FOREV / WARNE & LETTs 1807 / S. AMBOY. N. JERSY Stoneware Jar

$5,700

Anna Pottery Stoneware "Black Hills" Pig Flask with Incised Drinking Poem

$5,700

Attrib. E.B. Hyssong, Cassville, PA Stoneware Hanging Flowerpot

$5,700

WM. MOYER / HARRISBURG, PA Stoneware Jug w/ Large Floral Decoration

$5,700

Huntingdon County, PA Lidded Stoneware Sugar Bowl

$5,400

Stoneware Jar w/ Incised Bird Decoration, attrib. William Capron, Albany, NY, circa 1800

$5,400

COMMERAWS / STONEWARE / CORLEARS / HOOK, Stoneware Jug

$5,400

J. LITTELL / Greensboro, PA Stoneware Jar

$5,400

Galena, Illinois, Redware Jug

$5,400

Ten-Gallon Stoneware Crock w/ Cobalt Profile of a Woman, Akron, Ohio origin

$5,400

PAUL CUSHMAN'S STONE-WARE FACTORY 1809 / HALF A MILE WEST OF ALBANY GOAL (Jail) Stoneware Pitcher

$5,100

COWDEN & WILCOX / HARRISBURG, PA Stoneware Flower-and-Berries Jug

$5,100

DANIEL JOHNSON AND Co / No 24 LUMBER STREET / NEW YORK Oyster Jar by Thomas Commeraw

$5,100

Miniature Octagonal Redware Dish w/ Slip Decoration, Philadelphia, PA

$5,100

World's Fair Stoneware Train Bank w/ Brooklyn / NYC Advertising by White's Pottery, Utica, NY, 1893

$5,100

D. MORGAN / N. YORK (David Morgan, Corlears Hook, Manhattan, NY) Stoneware Jar, circa 1800

$5,100

Stoneware Water Cooler w/ Incised Birds attrib. Nicholas van Wickle, Manasquan, NJ, circa 1825

$4,800

Incised Sailing Ship Crock, probably William Capron, Albany, NY, circa 1800-1805

$4,800

COWDEN & WILCOX / HARRISBURG, PA Stoneware Bird Crock

$4,800

J. NORTON & CO / BENNINGTON VT Double Bird Jug

$4,800

North Shore, Massachusetts Redware Jug

$4,800

J. & E. NORTON, / BENNINGTON, VT Double Pheasant Jug

$4,800

HAXSTUN OTTMAN & CO / FORT EDWARD N.Y. Stoneware Jug w/ Pheasant-on-Stump Decoration

$4,800

Three-Gallon Stoneware Water Cooler attrib. Henry Harrison Remmey, Philadelphia

$4,800

Five-Gallon "Lm" Akaline-Glazed Stoneware Jar, Dave at Lewis Miles' Stony Bluff Manufactory, Horse Creek Valley, Edgefield District, SC, c1855

$4,800

BROWN POTTERY, Arden NC (circa 1930) Stoneware Face Jug

$4,800

Great Road Redware Cream Pitcher, probably Christopher Alexander Haun, Greene County, Tennessee

$4,500

HAXSTUN, OTTMAN & CO. / FORT EDWARD N.Y. Stoneware Crock w/ Figural Bust

$4,500

Ohio Stoneware Jug with Elaborate Incised Figural Decorations

$4,500

W-A-LEWIS / GALESVILLE-N-Y Stoneware Jug with Cobalt Figural Decoration, circa 1857-1860

$4,500

JOHN YOUNG & CO. (Harrisburg, PA) Stoneware Crock

$4,500

Five-Gallon HAMILTON & JONES / GREENSBORO, PA Double-Handled Stoneware Jug

$4,200

Robert Mathis, Pottersville, Edgefield District, SC Stoneware Jug

$4,200

N. CLARK JR. / ATHENS, NY Bird Jug

$4,200

Galena, Illinois Redware Canning Jar

$4,200

DAVID MORGAN / NEW YORK Incised Stoneware Jug

$4,200

J. & E. NORTON / BENNINGTON, VT Stoneware Jug w/ Tree and House Scene

$4,200

"Jackson" (William Jackson, Saugus, Essex County, MA, circa 1811) Redware Jar

$4,200

COWDEN & WILCOX / HARRISBURG, PA Stoneware Spittoon

$4,200

"Macy & Co. / 20th St. & 6th Ave." Advertising Jug w/ Peacock Decoration

$4,200

New England Redware Stew Pot w/ Profuse Slip Decoration, possibly Charlestown, MA, 18th century

$3,900

Ohio Stoneware Jar Inscribed "This is a Cat"

$3,900

Thomas Chandler Stoneware Jug (Edgefield District, South Carolina)

$3,900

WHITES UTICA Flower Basket Jug

$3,900

"ANNA / ill," (Wallace and Cornwall Kirkpatrick, Anna, Illinois) Stoneware Pig Bottle w/ Cincinnati Advertising

$3,900

COWDEN & WILCOX / HARRISBURG, PA Peacock Crock

$3,900

LYMAN & CLARK / GARDINER, Maine Stoneware Jug

$3,900

"John N. Carley / 1894" Presentation Pitcher by Richard C. Remmey, Philadelphia, PA

$3,900

Three-Gallon Manhattan Stoneware Jug with Large Incised Bird Decoration

$3,900

Ohio Stoneware Vase with Cobalt Fish Decoration

$3,900

Anna Pottery Rockingham / Flint Enamel Glazed Stoneware Pig Flask, Wallace and Cornwall Kirkpatrick, Anna, IL

$3,900

"Grant & Colfax / 1868" Ohio Stoneware Jug

$3,600

Attrib. Lanier Meaders, Cleveland, GA Early Period Face Jug

$3,600

Attrib. George and Albert Black, Somerfield, PA Stoneware Pitcher

$3,600

Stoneware Jug w/ Incised Federal Eagle Decoration, attrib. Daniel Goodale, Hartford, CT, circa 1825-30

$3,600

Dog-Form Pitcher, probably White's Pottery, Utica, NY

$3,600

"EZER WHITE," Ezer (Ezra) White, Mercer, Mercer County, PA, 1841 Eagle Cooler

$3,600

COWDEN & WILCOX / HARRISBURG, PA Man-in-the-Moon Stoneware Jar

$3,480

H.A. Rodebaugh, Akron, Ohio Stoneware Harvest Jug

$3,480

I. SEYMOUR / TROY, New York Stoneware Jug w/ Incised Bird

$3,360

New York City Stoneware Pitcher w/ Incised Decoration, late 18th century

$3,360

JOHN BELL / WAYNESBORO, PA Half-Gallon Stoneware Pitcher

$3,360

DONALDSON, Denton County, Texas Stoneware Jar

$3,360

Canfield, Ohio Stoneware Pitcher w/ Incised Inscriptions, 1845

$3,360

Jacob Neifer, Montgomery County, PA Redware Cabin Bank

$3,240

Stoneware Jar attrib. Lewis Miles' Stoney Bluff Manufactory, Horse Creek Valley, Edgefield District, SC, c1840-1860

$3,240

N. YORK / COERLEARS / HOOK Stoneware Pitcher by Thomas Commeraw, Manhattan, NY, late 18th century

$3,240

WM E WARNER / WEST-TROY Eagle Jug

$3,240

"Jesse Vestal / 1881," Washington County, Virginia Stoneaware Jug

$3,240

BALTIMORE / UNION STONE WARE / MANUFACTORY Jug

$3,240

William Macquoid (New York City) Stoneware Pitcher Inscribed "all time happy!," circa 1970

$3,240

"W.H. Rager" (William Henry Rager, Palatine, WV or possibly Greensboro, PA) Redware Pig Flask

$3,240

B.C. MILBURN / ALEXA" (Alexandria, Virginia) Slip-Trailed Stoneware Jar

$3,240

Two Galena, Illinois Redware Jugs

$3,120

SC DISPENSARY Stoneware Jug, late 19th / early 20th century

$3,120

JOHN C. HOPKINS. / No. 612 MARKET ST. / PHILADELPHIA Stoneware Cooler by Richard C. Remmey

$3,120

Attrib. David Drake Stoneware Jar (Dave at Lewis Miles' Stony Bluff Manufactory, Horse Creek Valley, Edgefield District, SC, circa 1860)

$3,120

Ohio Stoneware Jug w/ Chicken-Pecking-Corn Decoration

$3,120

COWDEN & WILCOX / HARRISBURG, PA Grapes Jug

$3,120

COWDEN & WILCOX / HARRISBURG, PA Batter Pail w/ Cobalt Floral Design

$3,120

E. S. FOX ATHENS (New York) Stoneware Jug for John Tyler

$3,000

J.C. WAELDE / NORTH BAY, New York Stoneware Rabbit Jug

$3,000

B.B. CRAIG / VALE, N.C. Stoneware Weeping Face Vase

$3,000

Attrib. Henry Thomas, Louisville, Kentucky Pig Bottle (Anna Pottery Style)

$3,000

COWDEN & WILCOX / HARRISBURG, PA Stoneware Jug w/ Grapes Decoration

$3,000

JACOB CONE /NEW HAVEN, Connecticut Gemel

$3,000

Tanware Flowerpot, New Geneva or Greensboro, PA origin

$3,000

"Samuel Bradford / Maker / at Thomas Morgan / factory / 27 of March / 1835" Baltimore Stoneware Jar