Lot #: 47
Price Realized: $747.50
($650 hammer, plus 15% buyer's premium)
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Scarce Two-Gallon Stoneware New Hampshire Advertising Jug with Cobalt Raised-Winged Bird Decoration, Northeastern U.S. origin, circa 1870, straight-sided jug with thick, semi-squared spout, decorated with a slip-trailed cobalt design of a bird about take flight off of a tree branch or flower stem. Bird depicted with a sense of motion, in a rare raised-wing stance with cobalt spots and feather detail to wings and body. Jug impressed "HAYES & CO., / WHOLESALE DEALERS IN / W ? S, &C. / MANCHESTER, N.H." Some fry to cobalt. In-the-firing stone ping to shoulder and front. Additional small stone ping to bird's thigh. H 14 1/2".
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