Lot #: 200
Price Realized: $345.00
($300 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.
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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