Lot #: 594
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.
Two Cobalt-Decorated Stoneware Jars, attributed to R.J. Grier, Chester County, PA, circa 1880, a quart-sized cylindrical jar with cobalt swag decoration, paired with a two-gallon cylindrical jar with three flowers around the shoulder. Quart-sized jar in excellent, as-made condition with some dark mottling to clay on one side. Two-gallon jar with a 9 1/2" vertical crack on side, extending 1 1/2" onto underside, as well as a small glazed-over stone ping near base, and a tiny, in-the-firing nick near base. H (of smaller jar) 7 1/8".
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