Lot #: 30
Price Realized: $488.75
($425 hammer, plus 15% buyer's premium)
PLEASE NOTE: This result is 10 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 New Jersey Stoneware Jar with Impressed Fish Decoration, probably Xerxes Price, South Amboy, NJ, early 19th century, ovoid jar with heavily-tooled shoulder, tall collar, and applied lug handles, decorated with a large impressed medallion with fish at the center. Reverse decorated with a medallion with four-petaled flower blossom. Jar measures approximately three to four gallons. Excellent decoration, with perhaps the largest impressed medallion we have seen on a piece of early New Jersey stoneware, measuring 2 7/8" inches in diameter. Long restored crack on reverse. A 2 1/4" x 1 1/2" chip to underside at edge. Other smaller base chips. Two small rim chips on front.
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