Lot #: 62
Price Realized: $1,955.00
($1,700 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.
Outstanding Four-Gallon Stoneware Jar with Exuberant Cobalt Floral Decoration, Baltimore, MD origin, circa 1845, ovoid jar with tooled shoulder, squared rim, and applied lug handles, decorated with a very large, heavily-brushed flowering plant extending up the front and reverse, culminating in two fan-shaped blossoms. Heavy cobalt highlights to handle terminals. One of the finest examples of brushed floral decoration we have seen on a Baltimore stoneware jar. The color of the decoration and clay ground are likewise exceptional. Excellent, essentially as-made condition with a faint 2 3/4" line to front, presumably in-the-firing, and a glazed-over separation at one handle terminal.
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