Lot #: 444
Price Realized: $86.25
($75 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.
Three Stoneware Bottles, Northeastern U.S. origin, second half 19th century, each with a light Albany slip wash over a salt-glazed ground. One impressed "F. MCKINNEY MEAD", one impressed "POMROY & HALL"; one impressed "G.S. TWITCHELL. / SUCCESSOR TO / G. WHITTEMORE". TWITCHELL bottle with shallow base chip, probably in-the-firing. POMROY & HALL bottle with two small in-the-firing contact marks to base of neck and a minor base chip. Mead bottle in excellent, essentially as-made condition with an in-the-firing contact mark to each side and a small amount of in-the-firing residue to underside. H (of Twitchell bottle) 10".
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