Lot #: 259
Price Realized: $2,875.00
($2,500 hammer, plus 15% buyer's premium)
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Auction Highlight: July 21, 2012 Auction
Scarce Four-Gallon Stoneware People Crock with Large Cobalt Decoration of a Woman Flanked by Trees, Southwestern PA Origin, circa 1865, cylindrical jar with tooled bands and flattened rim, decorated with a large brushed cobalt design of a woman with cape between two folky trees resembling grape clusters. Impressed "4" at shoulder. Some bubbling to cobalt. 2" rim chip on reverse.
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