Lot #: 10
Price Realized: $1,092.50
($950 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.
Extremely Rare One-Gallon Stoneware Jug with Impressed Bird Decoration, Stamped "J FENTON," Jonathan Fenton, Dorset, VT, circa 1800-1810, ovoid jug with heavily-tooled spout, slip-coated surface, and shoulder decorated with a coggled vertical bar design. Front of jug decorated with an impressed design of a bird highlighted in dark cobalt slip, with added brushed bough below. Shoulder impressed with the cobalt-highlighted maker's mark "J. FENTON", below the the incised and cobalt-highlighted mark "1/3". (While this jug is incised "1/3", its capacity is certainly closer to one-gallon.) Additional cobalt highlights to maker's mark. Few examples of this quality from Jonathan Fenton's early Dorset, Vermont operation are known. Excellent, essentially as-made condition with two in-the-firing surface chips / contact marks and minor wear to spout. H 12".
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