Lot #: 33
Price Realized: $833.75
($725 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.
Fine and Rare Two-Gallon Stoneware Jar with Cobalt Floral and Watchspring Decorations, attributed to Abial Price, Middletown Point (now Matawan), NJ, second quarter 19th century, ovoid jar with tooled shoulder, semi-rounded rim, and applied lug handles, decorated on one side with a large flower flanked by swags and surrounded by looping cobalt lines. Reverse decorated with a slip-trailed "2" flanked by swags and underscored by a looping line. Undersides of handles decoration with highly-unusual variants on the "watchspring" motif, a link to a popular decoration used by New Jersey potters decades before this jar was made. Provenance: A fresh-to-the-market example, from a Texas collection consigned to this auction. Excellent, essentially as-made condition.
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