Lot #: 184
Price Realized: $632.50
($550 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.
One-and-a-Half-Gallon Stoneware Jar with Cobalt Floral Decoration, Stamped "H.C. SMITH / ALEXA / D.C.," circa 1835, cylindrical jar with tooled shoulder and semi-rounded rim, decorated with an elaborately-brushed vine bearing four blossoms and leaves extending around the body of the jar. Reverse with brushed wavy line at shoulder. Shoulder impressed with an error one-and-a-half-gallon capacity marking, which reads "1/2 1", indicating the jar was marked with both the Wilkes Street Pottery's half-gallon capacity mark and one-gallon capacity mark. Provenance: A fresh-to-the-market example, recently found in a Delaware home. Very nice condition with a faint 4" vertical line at midsection on front, possibly in-the-firing, two glazed-over rim chips, and two minor in-the-firing contact marks near base on reverse.
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