Lot of Three: COWDEN & WILCOX Stoneware Cream Jar with Floral Decoration, Wilkes Barre Advertising Jug, and Pfaltzgraff Jug

July 20, 2013 Stoneware Auction

Lot #: 528

Price Realized: $230.00

($200 hammer, plus 15% buyer's premium)

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Three Pieces of Pennsylvania Stoneware, 19th century, a one-gallon ovoid jar with cobalt floral decoration, stamped �COWDEN & WILCOX / HARRISBURG, PA�; a one-gallon Pfaltzgraff jug with hanging cobalt floral decoration, stamped �THE P.S. CO / YORK, PA�; and a five-gallon Bristol-slip-glazed jug with black-glazed advertising for �CONSTINE�S W-BARRE. PA,� stamped �JAMES RYAN / PITTSTON, PA�. Cowden & Wilcox jar in essentially as-made condition with some blurriness to decoration and a salt drip at base on reverse. Pfaltzgraff jug with poorly-restored, uncolored handle and thin flake to spout. Ryan jug in excellent, essentially as-made condition with an in-the-firing hairline to upper handle terminal and some traces of old gold paint to surface.