Lot #: 2
Price Realized: $1,840.00
($1,600 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.
Very Fine Three-Gallon Stoneware Tapered Crock with Elaborate Cobalt Floral Decoration, Stamped "HAMILTON / Greensboro / Pa," circa 1860, pail-shaped vessel with tooled midsection, semi-rounded rim, and applied lug handles, decorated with a bold flowering vine design incorporating three different blossoms. Base decorated with a brushed cobalt "3" flanked by dashes. Impressed on reverse with one of the impressed marks used by potter William Leet Hamilton, along with a three-gallon capacity mark. Attractive form with superb decoration. Some in-the-firing lines to shoulder on side and reverse, which do not extend through to interior. 7 1/2" H-shaped line on reverse, which may have occurred in the firing. Hairlines on underside and 2" U-shaped crack on underside, which extends a short distance onto base in two places. A few base chips. H 12".
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