Lot #: 46
Price Realized: $1,955.00
($1,700 hammer, plus 15% buyer's premium)
PLEASE NOTE: This result is 13 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.
Extremely Rare One-Gallon Stoneware Cake Crock with Eastern Shore of Maryland Advertising, Baltimore, MD origin, circa 1875, low-walled, cylindrical crock with tooled shoulder, squared rim, and applied tab handles, featuring the impressed and cobalt-highlighted advertising, "HALL & GODWIN / DEALERS IN DRYGOODS / GROCERIES & QUEENS WARE / CENTREVILLE M,D". Crock decorated on the front and back with a wavy line and clover motif. Impressed with an unusual Celtic cross under one handle. Eastern Shore of Maryland advertising stoneware is scarce in its own right,. This example is the first Eastern Shore cake crock we have seen. Excellent condition with a 1 1/4" in-the-firing separation at base, which is not visible on interior, and some small, shallow chips to rim. H 5" ; Diameter 9 1/2".
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