Lot #: 305
Price Realized: $1,092.50
($950 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.
Outstanding Two-Gallon Stoneware Pitcher with Cobalt Bird-on-Stump Decoration, New York State origin, circa 1870, large-sized, ovoid pitcher with tooled shoulder and flared rim, decorated with a slip-trailed design of a crested bird with long tail and spotted body, perched on a stylized tree stump. Excellent size, form, and decoration. Few bird-decorated stoneware pitchers of this size are known. Chip to left side of spout. Other minor in-the-firing flaws, including a minor in-the-firing chip to side of pitcher. two minor, glazed-over base chips, and some in-the-firing roughness to top edge of rim. H 12 3/4".
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