Lot #: 328
Price Realized: $345.00
($300 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.
Two-Gallon Stoneware Crock with Cobalt Chicken Pecking Corn Decoration, Stamped "BRADY & RYAN / ELLENVILLE, N.Y.," circa 1885, cylindrical crock with semi-rounded rim and applied lug handles, decorated with a slip-trailed design of a chicken pecking kernels of corn from a stylized ground. 1 3/8" rim chip on reverse. Small iron ping on one side. Glazed-over iron ping on one handle with some very short glazed-over cracks extending from it, remaining in handle. Shallow 3/4" in-the-firing contact mark / chip at base. Approximately 4 1/2" long Y-shaped hairline at base on reverse, continuing 6" onto underside. Faint 3" Y-shaped surface line on right side of crock's front, not visible on interior.
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