Lot #: 514
Price Realized: $86.25
($75 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 One-Gallon Stoneware Ja with Folky Cobalt Duck Decoration, Stamped "S. BELL & SON / STRASBURG," Virginia origin, circa 1890, cylindrical jar with tooled shoulder and squared rim, decorated with a large, lightly-brushed design of a duck with upswept tail, applied over whitish slip. Typical brushed swag decoration around the shoulder. Few figural-decorated examples of stoneware bearing this mark are known. A few small base chips. A rim chip. A shallow, in-the-firing contact mark on top of rim. Some wear to interior of rim. Some crazing to base, not visible on interior and presumably in-the-firing.
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