Lot #: 262
Price Realized: $1,035.00
($900 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 One-Gallon Cobalt-Decorated Stoneware Jar with Eastern Shore of MD Advertising for a Sharptown Merchant, Baltimore, MD origin, circa 1875, cylindrical jar with tooled shoulder and squared rim, decorated with two-stemmed cobalt clover plants on each side, flanking the impressed and cobalt-highlighted advertising "TWILLEY & BENNETT / DEALERS IN DRYGOODS / GROCERIES & C / SHARPTOWN MD." 3" thin crack from rim. Faint 5" hairline at base, which may have occurred in the firing. H 9".
Click images to enlarge.
A Few of the Related Items We've Sold
Exceptional J. & E. NORTON / BENNINGTON, VT Stoneware Crock w/ Stag and Doe Scene
Exceedingly Rare and Important Morgantown, WV Stoneware Eagle Jar w/ Cobalt and Manganese Eagle
Magnificent JAMES HAMILTON & CO. / GREENSBORO, PA 20 Gallon Stoneware Presentation Crock
Southwestern PA Stoneware Wax Sealer w/ the Figure of a Baseball Player
Extremely Important West Troy, NY Stoneware Elephant Crock
Exceptional HARRINGTON & BURGER / ROCHESTER Stoneware Jar w/ Elaborate Parrot Design
