Lot #: 367
Price Realized: $575.00
($500 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.
Copper-Glazed Redware Figure of a Ram, Unknown Origin, possibly Moravian, NC origin, 19th century, molded figure of a reclining ram composed of whitish earthenware clay, featuring incised details to face and body, the surface covered in a vibrant green copper glaze. This figure shares notable characteristics with Moravian examples. Amongst other press-molded earthenware figural bottles and toys with similar glazes, sheep figures were produced by the Moravians, as evidenced by a fragmented sheep head recovered from the pottery site of Heinrich Schaffner; a sheep mold (somewhat similar to this example) pictured in John Bivens' The Moravian Potters in North Carolina; three sheep molds known to have been given by Rudolph Christ to fellow potter John Holland; and sheep toys listed in an 1824 Salem pottery inventory. (See Ceramics in America 2009.) Light wear to chin. L 3 1/2”.
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