Lot #: 183
Price Realized: $1,265.00
($1,100 hammer, plus 15% buyer's premium)
PLEASE NOTE: This result is 9 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.
Rare Five-Gallon Stoneware Jar with Cobalt Chicken Pecking Corn Decoration, attributed to the Fulper Bros. Pottery, Flemington, NJ, late 19th century, large cylindrical jar with rounded shoulder, squared rim, and applied lug handles, the surface covered in a Bristol slip glaze and decorated with a large cobalt design of a chicken pecking kernels of corn. Very nice graduated stripe accents throughout bird's body and heavy shrub detail to the ground below. Chicken pecking corn decorations by the Fulper Pottery are considered scarce. The chicken on this example measures an impressive 10 1/2" long. Provenance: From a small northeastern U.S. collection amassed during the 1950s-1990s. Two tight lines on front measuring 5 1/2" and 2 3/4". A very tight line on underside, extending a short distance onto base. A small X-shaped line on reverse and a small Y-shaped line under one handle. A 7/8" chip and tiny iron ping to interior of rim. H 14 1/2".
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