Lot #: 200
Price Realized: $345.00
($300 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.
Unusual One-Gallon Stoneware Jar with Incised Line Decoration, Stamped "PAUL : CUSHMANS," Albany, NY origin, circa 1810, cylindrical jar with heavily-tooled shoulder, flared rim, and unusual incised circumferential wavy line above the impressed mark of Albany, NY pottery owner, Paul Cushman. Albany-slip-glazed interior and unusual streaky whitish slip coating to areas on exterior surface. Provenance: Found decades ago in the northeastern U.S. Partially-filled and colored top-to-bottom crack from rim on front, which continues a few inches onto underside, where it forms a Y. Additional partially-colored, in-the-firing crazing to underside, not visible on interior. One rim chip and a few short and very minor lines in rim molding, possibly in-the-firing.
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