Lot #: 581
Price Realized: $143.75
($125 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.
Four Stoneware Bottles, Northeastern U.S. origin, third quarter 19th century, all of similar cylindrical form with tapered necks and large spouts; one impressed with the cobalt-highlighted name and date, "J FRANCIS / 1872"; one with brown-dipped top, stamped "MORTON & RICHARDSON / 1854"; one with cobalt highlighted spout and name, impressed "W E HEALD"; and one impressed with the cobalt-highlighted advertising "VROMAN & BEDELL". Francis bottle with small chips to bottom edge of spout, as well as a tiny nick and wear where neck meets body of bottle. Morton & Richardson bottle with top-to-bottom crack, a few shallow chips to underside, and a glazed-over chip on interior of spout. Heald bottle in excellent condition with some tiny base nicks. Vroman & Bedel bottle with a 4 1/2" crack on side, which continues onto underside where it multiplies, as well as surface wear to top of cylindrical section of bottle, and three faint lines in spout.
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