Lot #: 223
Price Realized: $488.75
($425 hammer, plus 15% buyer's premium)
PLEASE NOTE: This result is 15 years old, and the American ceramics market frequently changes. Additionally, small nuances of color, condition, shape, etc. can mean huge differences in price. If you're interested in having us sell a similar item for you, please contact us here.
Three-Gallon Stoneware Crock with Large Cobalt Fuschia Decoration, "E. FOWLER / BEAVER, PA," circa 1870, pail-shaped crock with tooled shoulder, squared rim, and applied lug handles, decorated with an undulating cobalt vine bearing leaves and two very large fuschia blossoms. Script cobalt 3 with dashes at midsection. Dryness to cobalt on right flower. 1 1/4" chip to edge of one handle. 1 1/2" chipped section to opposite handle. Very faint 4" Y-shaped line on side of crock, which is in the surface only and does not extend through to interior. 7/8" faint line in rim, which does not extend through to interior. H 11 1/2".
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