Lot #: 16
Price Realized: $460.00
($400 hammer, plus 15% buyer's premium)
PLEASE NOTE: This result is 14 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.
Rare Three-Gallon Cobalt-Decorated Stoneware Jar with Elaborate Advertising, Midwestern origin, circa 1860, ovoid jar with tall collar, tooled shoulder, and applied lug handles, decorated with a brushed cobalt flowering plant design and a script cobalt "3". Shoulder impressed with three lines of advertising for the Detriot, MI merchants, Moore & Foote. Advertising reads "MOORE & FOOTE WHOLESALE DEALERS IN GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, / WHITEFISH & TROUT STONEWARE PAINTS OILS, DYE WOODS & SASH & / GLASS ANCHORS CHAINS ROPES CANVASS & OTHER SHIP CHANDLER." A fine and highly unusual example of American advertising stoneware. Handle chip. Rim chip on reverse. A few other minor rim nicks. H 12".
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