Lot #: 350
Price Realized: $201.25
($175 hammer, plus 15% buyer's premium)
PLEASE NOTE: This result is 12 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.
Two-Gallon Cobalt-Decorated Stoneware Cake Crock, Baltimore, MD origin, circa 1880, cylindrical crock with semi-squared rim and applied tab handles, decorated on the front and back with brushed cobalt clovers underscored by a cobalt stripe. Dryness to cobalt. Contact mark on one side. Shallow chips to interior of rim. A tiny in-the-firing base chip.
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