2023 Auction Highlights

$204,000

Loudoun County, Virginia, Stoneware Ring Flask w/ Incised Federal Eagle Decoration and Patriotic Inscriptions, Inscribed "George Duncan 1827" and "Enoch Dove"

WORLD AUCTION RECORD, VIRGINIA STONEWARE

$144,000

Stoneware Face Jug, Edgefield District, South Carolina, c1855-1880

WORLD AUCTION RECORD: AMERICAN FACE JUG

$132,000

Alamance County, North Carolina Redware Sugar Jar, Loy / Albright Families, late 18th century

WORLD AUCTION RECORD: ALAMANCE COUNTY REDWARE

$120,000

WEST TROY / POTTERY (New York) Twenty-Gallon Stoneware Barrel w/ Extravagant Cobalt Town Scene

$120,000

Thomas W. Commeraw Early Period Stoneware Jar (COERLEARS HOOK / N. YORK) Illustrated on Cover of Zipp, Commeraw's Stoneware

WORLD AUCTION RECORD: THOMAS COMMERAW STONEWARE

$108,000

F. STETZENMEYER & Co. / ROCHESTER, N.Y. Stoneware Deer Crock

WORLD AUCTION RECORD: ROCHESTER STONEWARE

$108,000

The Philadelphia Cooler: Masterwork by Henry Remmey, Jr. Dated 1828

WORLD AUCTION RECORD: PHILADELPHIA STONEWARE

$72,000

Crolius Family, Manhattan / New York City Stoneware Flask w/ Incised and Punched Decoration, 18th century

$72,000

N. CLARK & Co / ROCHESTER, N.Y. Stoneware Jar w/ Cobalt Deer Scene

$72,000

Thomas W. Commeraw Incised Stoneware Jar, COERLEARS HOOK / N. YORK, circa 1797

$60,000

Muskingum County, Ohio, AFRICA Jug w/ Snake, Bird and Bust Motifs

$57,000

Henry Remmey, Sr., Baltimore, MD Stoneware Pitcher w/ Profuse Incised Birds Scene

$57,000

F. STETZENMEYER. & Co. / ROCHESTER, N.Y. Stoneware Fox Jug

$54,000

COWDEN & WILCOX / HARRISBURG, PA Triple Man-in-the-Moon Batter Pail

$48,000

Monumental YOUNG BROs. & MARIS Co. / WHOLESALE JOBBERS / of / AKRON STONEWARE Jug

$48,000

"Decr. 4 1856 / Dave / Lm" Stoneware Jar by David Drake at Lewis Miles's Stony Bluff Manufactory, Horse Creek Valley, Edgefield District, SC

$48,000

Arie Meaders Face Jug, circa 1958-59

WORLD AUCTION RECORD: MEADERS POTTERY

$45,000

Moravian Redware Turtle Bottle w/ Copper Glaze, Salem, North Carolina

$42,000

Edgefield District, South Carolina, Stoneware Face Jug, c1845-65

$39,000

Philadelphia Redware Plate w/ Elaborate Yellow and Copper Slip Decoration, late 18th / early 19th century

$39,000

18th Century Philadelphia, PA Redware Plate w/ Yellow and Copper Slip Decoration

$36,000

“C. Rhodes Maker” (Collin Rhodes Pottery, Shaw’s Creek, Edgefield District, South Carolina) Double-Handled Stoneware Jug

$36,000

Exceptional Slip-Decorated Philadelphia, PA Redware Loaf Dish, fourth quarter 18th century

$32,400

Double-Handled Stoneware Presentation Jug for Michigan Merchant, probably Akron

$32,400

Samuel Holmes, Georgetown / D.C. Stoneware Pitcher

WORLD AUCTION RECORD: DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA STONEWARE

$32,400

Northeastern Redware Face Flask, first half 19th century

$30,000

Small-Sized Moravian Redware Fish Bottle w/ Copper Glaze, Salem, North Carolina

$28,800

JUMBO Stoneware Crock Depicting Jumbo the Elephant, Somerset Potters Works, Massachusetts

$27,600

Large-Sized Anna Pottery Frog-on-Face Inkwell: "Reform 1876 / 1884 Reform / Same Old KroAker / Wind / By Anna Pottery"

$25,200

Morgantown, WV Stoneware Jug w/ Cobalt Indian Chief and Woman Decoration, Thompson Family

$25,200

J. & E. NORTON / BENNINGTON, VT Stoneware Peacock Jar

$24,000

New England Redware Jar w/ Profuse Three-Color Slip Decoration, probably Norwalk, CT

$24,000

BOSTON (Jonathan Fenton, late 18th century) Stoneware Jar w/ Birds-in-Tree Motif

$21,600

Oversized Stoneware Storefront Cooler w/ Toledo, Ohio Advertising

$21,600

T.H. WILLSON & CO. / HARRISBURG, PA Slip-Trailed Stoneware Jar

$20,400

Cheever and Lanier Meaders Face Jug, Cleveland, GA, circa 1967

$20,400

Gurdon Robins / & Co. / Fayetteville, NC Stoneware Jug by Edward Webster, c1819-20

$19,200

BAMA-CITY, Fairhope or Montrose, Alabama Stoneware Jug

$19,200

J. BURGER, JR. / ROCHESTER N.Y. Stoneware Rooster Crock

$19,200

EDWARD WEBSTER, Fayetteville, North Carolina, Stoneware Jug, c1824-38

$19,200

Attrib. Christopher Alexander Haun, Greene County, TN Copper-Decorated Redware Bowl

$19,200

"A.V. Boughner, / Greensboro, Pa" Four-Gallon Stoneware Jar w/ Thistle Decoration

$18,000

Seven-Gallon Baltimore Stoneware Water Cooler w/ Profuse Decoration

$18,000

B.C. MILBURN, Alexandria, VA Stoneware Cake Crock Inscribed "Washington C. Milburn"

$18,000

Attrib. Collin Rhodes, Shaw's Creek, Edgefield District, SC, Small-Sized Jug w/ Elaborate Kaolin Slip

$18,000

PENN YAN, New York Stoneware Jug w/ Seneca Indian Decoration

$18,000

J.B. LEATHERS / MT. EAGLE, PA Stoneware Batter Pail

$16,800

Simeon L. Bray, Evansville, Indiana Snake / Temperance Jug, c1885

$15,600

"John Remmey" (probably John Remmey II, Manhattan, NY, circa 1785) Stoneware Jug

$15,600

SOLOMON BELL / STRASBURG, VA Octagonal Redware Dish w/ Copper Slip Decoration

$14,400

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

$14,400

COWDEN & WILCOX / HARRISBURG, PA Stoneware Batter Pail w/ Sideburned Man-in-the-Moon

$14,400

JOHN BELL / WAYNESBORO Redware Flowerpot w/ Ring Handles

$14,400

Anna Pottery Stoneware Spaniel w/ Glass Eyes

$14,400

E & L P NORTON / BENNINGTON, VT Stoneware Chicken Jug

$13,200

Brown Brothers / Huntington, Long Island Stoneware Epigraph Jug: "ASK ME TO SMILE"

$13,200

J. NORTON & CO. / BENNINGTON, VT Pheasant-on-Stump Jug

$13,200

Four-Gallon Double-Handled Jug attrib. David Drake at Lewis Miles's Stony Bluff Manufactory

$13,200

COWDEN & WILCOX / HARRISBURG, PA Stoneware Jug w/ Bird on Stump

$13,200

COWDEN & WILCOX / HARRISBURG, PA Three-Gallon Stoneware Jar w/ Bird in Wreath

$13,200

C. CROLIUS / BAYARD STREET / NEW-YORK Stoneware Jar

$12,000

F. STETZENMEYER. / ROCHESTER. N.Y. Stoneware Rabbit Crock

$12,000

Anna Pottery Stoneware Figure of a Spaniel

$12,000

New England Redware Bottle, possibly Peter Clark, Danvers or Braintree, MA or Lyndeboro, NH, 18th or early 19th century

$12,000

Pennsylvania Redware Jar w/ Three-Color-Slip Tulip Decoration, probably Bucks County

$11,400

Haycock Township, Bucks County, PA Redware Flowerpot: "Made by / Edward Singer / Applebachville / March 20 / 1884"

$11,400

"S J Thompson / Parkersburg W Va / Aug 19 1882" Small Stoneware Jar, attrib. A.P. Donaghho

$11,400

H. M. & T. MILLER (Newport, Pennsylvania) Double-Handled Stoneware Jug

$10,800

Stoneware Face Jug attrib. Ernest Galloway, Paducah, KY, early 20th century

$10,800

"Decr 2. 1852" Jar by David Drake at Lewis Miles's Stony Bluff Manufactory, Horse Creek Valley, Edgefield District, SC

$10,800

O. HART (Sherburne / Ogdensburg, NY Hart Family for Ordelia Hart) Toy Churn

$10,800

Stoneware "Black Hills" Pig Flask, Signed "Anna Pottery"

$10,200

Very Rare North Carolina Redware Dish w/ Spiraling Slip Decoration

$10,200

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

$10,200

Edgefield Stoneware Jar by Horne and Devore at Jesse P. Bodie Pottery, Kirksey's Crossroads

$10,200

Chester Webster, Randolph County, NC Incised Bird Jar

$9,600

HENRY / PHILA Stoneware Chicken Waterer attrib. Richard C. Remmey, Philadelphia, PA

$9,600

Chester Webster, Randolph County, NC 1877 Lidded Stoneware Jar w/ Incised Bird and Fish Motifs

$9,600

BOSTON / 1804 Stoneware Jug w/ Cobalt and Iron Decoration

$9,600

J.A.C. (John A. Craven, Randolph County, North Carolina) Stoneware Jug

$9,600

Snow Hill Nunnery Redware Bowl attrib. John Bell

$9,600

J. BELL (John Bell, Waynesboro, PA) Large-Sized Redware Pitcher w/ Copper and Manganese Decoration

$9,600

WISKEMAN & WILBER / NEWBERRY, S.C. Stoneware Jar by Jesse P. Bodie, Kirksey's Crossroads, Edgefield District, SC

$9,600

Simeon L. Bray, Evansville, IN, 1885 Temperance Jug

$9,600

Moravian Manganese-Glazed Redware Fish Bottle, Salem, NC

$9,600

COWDEN & WILCOX / HARRISBURG, PA Quadruple Man-in-the-Moon Batter Pail

$9,000

Attrib. Thomas Chandler, Edgefield District, SC Two-Color-Slip Stoneware Jar

$9,000

J. BURGER, JR. / ROCHESTER, N.Y. Stoneware Churn w/ Leaping Deer

$9,000

Pennsylvania Redware Figure of a Standing Leopard

$9,000

Chester Webster, Randolph County, NC Miniature Stoneware Pitcher w/ Incised Birds

$9,000

Moravian Redware Squirrel Bottle w/ Whieldon-Type Glaze, Salem, NC

$9,000

"Virgie / 1875" Central Pennsylvania Miniature Stoneware Presentation Pitcher

$9,000

Moravian Redware Chicken Caster w/ Whieldon-Type Glaze, Salem, NC

$8,400

1689-1702 William III Stoneware Portrait Jug, Westerwald, Germany

$8,400

Ten-Gallon Baltimore Stoneware Jar w/ Profuse Cobalt Clover, Chainlink, and Wheelbarrow Decorations

$8,400

Attrib. Collin Rhodes, Shaw's Creek, Edgefield District, South Carolina Stoneware Jar

$8,400

Anna Pottery / 1887 Stoneware Face Inkwell w/ Applied Frog

$8,400

COWDEN & WILCOX / HARRISBURG, PA Stoneware Jug w/ Slip-Trailed Floral-and-Wreath Motif

$8,400

Anna Pottery Pig Flask: "St. Louis the future Capital"

$8,400

BOSTON / 1804 (Frederick Carpenter, Charlestown, MA) Squat Stoneware Jar

$8,400

JOHN YOUNG & CO (Harrisburg, PA) Slip-Trailed Stoneware Jug

$7,800

Large-Sized Redware African-American Preacher Bank, probably Southern or Mid-Atlantic

$7,800

Cobalt-and-Albany-Slip-Decorated Sculpture of Two Hunters, attrib. A.P. Donaghho Pottery, Parkersburg, WV

$7,800

Outstanding Miniature Western PA Stoneware Jug

$7,800

Baltimore, Maryland Stoneware Bottle

$7,800

COWDEN & WILCOX / HARRISBURG, PA Four-Gallon Stoneware Jug

$7,800

S. HART / FULTON Stoneware Jug w/ Dog Carrying Basket

$7,800

Canadian Stoneware Advertising Jug: "W NORTHWOOD & CO / CHATHAM CW"

$7,800

NEW YORK STONEWARE CO. Six-Gallon Double-Handled Jug Cooler w/ Cobalt Pecking Chicken

$7,800

Lanier Meaders, Cleveland, GA, circa 1960s Face Jug

$7,200

"Little Brown Jug/ By / Anna Pottery / 1876," Wallace and Cornwall Kirkpatrick Snake Jug

$7,200

J. BELL (John Bell, circa 1840) Tin-Glazed Redware Ladies Spittoon

$7,200

Mahoning County, Ohio Harvest Jug: "Old Rye Whiskey / Second Amendment Jug / Nov 27th 1883 / Wm. Rose"

$7,200

Attrib. Stephen H. Ward, West Brownsville, Pennsylvania Eagle Jar

$7,200

Harvey Reinhardt, Vale, NC, Face Jug, second quarter 20th century

$7,200

N. YORK / COERLEARS / HOOK (Thomas W. Commeraw, late 18th century) Stoneware Jug

$7,200

J.A.C (John A. Craven, Randolph County, NC) Stoneware Jug

$7,200

1787 Stoneware Mug attrib. Abraham Mead, Greenwich, Connecticut

$7,200

COWDEN & WILCOX / HARRISBURG, PA Crock w/ Bird on Branch

$6,600

WHITE'S UTICA Stoneware Jar w/ Cobalt Deer Scene

$6,600

Fine Crimped-Rim Pennsylvania Redware Jar

$6,600

Boston Stoneware Advertising Jug w/ Cobalt Deer Decoration, attrib. J. & E. Norton, Bennington, VT

$6,600

COMMERAWS / STONEWARE / N. YORK Squat-Formed Stoneware Jar (Thomas Commeraw, Manhattan)

$6,600

JOHN BELL (Waynesboro, PA) Redware Mug w/ Profuse Glaze

$6,600

B.C. MILBURN / ALEXA (Alexandria, Virginia) Stoneware Tulip Jar

$6,600

“Lm / July 21-1853” (David Drake at Lewis Miles’s Stony Bluff Manufactory, Horse Creek Valley, Edgefield District, SC) Stoneware Jar

$6,600

Pittsfield, Illinois Stoneware Jug by Female Potter for a Friend

$6,000

Attrib. J. Eberly, Strasburg, VA Large-Sized Redware Cream Pitcher with Mocha-Style Seaweed Decoration

$6,000

New Jersey Stoneware Bank w/ Elaborate Cobalt Floral and Spot Decoration

$6,000

Attrib. Henry Harrison Remmey, Philadelphia Stoneware Water Cooler, c1835

$6,000

T. HARRINGTON / LYONS Stoneware Churn w/ Elaborate Bird-on-Stump Decoration

$6,000

Stoneware Filtering Water Cooler attrib. Margaret Parr & Co., Baltimore, MD, c1835-40

$6,000

C.L. WILLIAMS / & CO. / BEST BLUE / STONEWARE / NEW GENEVA, PA. Double-Handled Jug

$5,700

Attrib. Henry Harrison Remmey, Philadelphia, PA Water Cooler w/ Flowering Urn Design

$5,700

Ohio Small-Sized Stoneware 1885 Water Cooler w/ Applied Oak Branch Decoration

$5,700

Copper-Glazed Redware Wall Pocket, attrib. J. Eberly & Co., Strasburg, VA

$5,700

Brown Brothers, Huntington, Long Island Stoneware Jar: "MY LOVE AND ME"

$5,700

Anna / Texarkana Pottery School Stoneware Spaniel

$5,700

Manhattan Stoneware Jug w/ Large Incised Bird Decoration

$5,700

Large-Sized Midwestern Stoneware Figure of a Lamb

$5,700

Galena, Illinois Redware "Moon" Jug

$5,400

ALX. REITER. ALLIANCE. OHIO. Stoneware Presentation Harvest Jug

$5,400

BOSTON (Jonathan Fenton, late 18th century) Stoneware Fish Jar

$5,400

Stoneware Face Jug w/ Cigar, attributed to Otto Brown

$5,400

"Marion / Virginia / 1884" Face Jug by Evan Javan Brown at the Choctaw Indian Pottery, c1930

$5,400

Meaders Family Face Jug w/ Rock Eyes and Teeth, early 20th century

$5,400

Pennsylvania Redware Tea Canister, late 18th / early 19th century

$5,100

Anna Pottery Pig Bottle: "From / John Gaubatz / No 115 Christy Ave / St. Louis Mo."

$5,100

COWDEN & WILCOX / HARRISBURG, PA Three-Gallon Stoneware Star Jug

$5,100

"From Balsley Detroit" Michigan Stoneware Advertising Jar, Ten Gallons

$5,100

Miniature Strasburg Stoneware Pitcher attrib. George Henry Davidson

$5,100

R THOMPSON & Co. / GARDINER, Maine Stoneware Incised Bird Jug

$4,800

A & W BOUGHNER / GREENSBORO / PA Five-Gallon Stoneware Jar

$4,800

Hamilton & Jones / STAR POTTERY Stenciled Apple Canning Jar

$4,800

COMMERAW'S / STONEWARE Jug by Thomas Commeraw, early 19th century

$4,800

JOHN BELL / WAYNESBORO One-and-a-Half-Gallon Stoneware Pitcher

$4,500

JOHN BELL / WAYNESBORO Stoneware Mug

$4,200

JOHN BELL (Waynesboro, Pennsylvania) Redware Lidded Ale Mug

$3,900

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

$3,900

COWDEN & WILCOX / HARRISBURG, PA Stoneware Bird Jar

$3,900

Norwalk, CT Redware Charger w/ Copper Slip Decoration, Norwalk, probably Absalom Day

$3,900

COWDEN & WILCOX / HARRISBURG, PA Stoneware Jug w/ Slip-Trailed Floral Design

$3,900

Attrib. Landrum Brick and Pottery, Columbia, SC Stoneware Jug

$3,600

J. MILLER. / WHEELING, Va. (now West Virginia) 1831 Stoneware Jar

$3,600

E ENTLER (Weis Pottery, Shepherdstown, WV) Redware Jar

$3,480

"Alex. Henderson" Presentation pitcher by Richard C. Remmey (Philadelphia, c1885)

$3,480

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

$3,480

Strasburg, VA Redware Wall Pocket attrib. J. Eberly

$3,480

Incised Stoneware Pitcher attrib. Thomas W. Commeraw, late 18th century

$3,360

BOSTON (Jonathan Fenton, late 18th century) Stoneware Fish Jug

$3,360

R.T. WILLIAMS / NEW GENEVA, PA Stoneware Eagle Jug

$3,360

C.W. BRAUN / BUFFALO N.Y. Slip-Trailed Bird Crock

$3,240

Excavated Stoneware Coffeepot by Henry H. Remmey, Philadelphia, PA

$3,120

E.J. BROWN (Evan Javan Brown, Sr., Arden, NC) Face Jug

$3,120

Greensboro, PA Stoneware Bowl w/ Stenciled Thistle Motif

$3,120

Ravenswood, West Virginia, Advertising Stoneware Canning Jar

$3,000

Moravian Multi-Glazed Redware Squirrel Bottle attrib. Rudolph Christ, Salem, NC

$3,000

Ravenswood, West Virginia Stoneware Crock by T.F. Reppert (Greensboro, PA)