Lot #: 228
Price Realized: $287.50
($250 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.
Fine Two-Gallon Stoneware Crock with Cobalt Bird on Branch Decoration, Stamped "EDMANDS & CO.," Charlestown, MA origin, circa 1860, cylindrical crock with thin semi-squared rim and applied lug handles, decorated with an elaborate slip-trailed design of a crested bird with spots, perched on a flowering branch with three different blossoms. Excellent decoration. Some very faint surface lines on underside, probably in-the-firing. An in-the-firing 2 1/4" separation line on interior, also visible on exterior, above left side of left handle. A 4 1/2" hairline to right of left handle. Three additional hairlines from rim on front, measuring 3 1/2", 2 1/2", and 4 1/2". Some old painted touch-up to these hairlines. Some painted touch-up to rim. 4" hairline from rim on reverse. 2 1/2" hairline at base on reverse, which becomes very faint and continues several inches onto underside.
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