Lot #: 497
Price Realized: $517.50
($450 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.
Rare Six-Gallon Glazed Redware Cream Jar, Galena, IL origin, second half 19th century, ovoid jar with tooled midsection, pronounced rounded rim, and applied lug handles, the interior and exterior covered in a lead glaze over a colorful pale bluish-green ground with orange spotting. Incised "6" below rim. Exceptional, impressive large size. Heavy glaze wear to interior and exterior of rim. Additional glaze loss to interior. Two chips and some exfoliation to one handle. Lighter glaze wear to bottom edge of opposite handle. Sporadic minor spots of wear to exterior surface. 7/8" glaze flake under one handle.
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