Lot #: 555
Price Realized: $172.50
($150 hammer, plus 15% buyer's premium)
PLEASE NOTE: This result is 11 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.
Three Pieces of Salt-Glazed Stoneware, American and German, 19th century, a two-gallon jar with impressed eagle and flag motifs, stamped "GARDINER STONEWARE MANUFACTORY / GARDINER, Me"; a one-gallon undecorated jug, stamped "JOHN BURGER / ROCHESTER"; and a small Westerwald jar with cobalt chain link decoration, inscribed "6". Gardiner jar with a 4 3/4" crack from rim and rim chips. Gardinjer jar also has a swelled underside, which keeps it from sitting flat. Burger jug with glazed-over stone ping, two base chips and a few base nicks, a small star-shaped line on reverse, and wear to handle. Westerwald jar with some in-the-firing and post-firing rim chips.
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