Lot #: 391
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.
Six-Gallon Stoneware Crock with Cobalt Grapes Decoration, Stamped "COWDEN & WILCOX / HARRISBURG, PA," circa 1865, cylindrical crock with tooled shoulder, flattened rim, and applied lug handles, decorated with a large cluster of eight grapes hanging from a vine with three leaves and several corkscrewing tendrils. Cobalt highlights to maker's mark and capacity mark. A good example of a popular Harrisburg design. Provenance: A fresh-to-the-market example from a sixty-year Midwestern collection. Some light exfoliation to shoulder area. Faint 4" Y-shaped surface line on side of crock, not visible on interior. Long V-shaped surface line visible on interior. A 8" section of this line is very faintly visible under the left handle. Three minor chips on interior of rim. One is glazed-over and another appears to also be in-the-firing.
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