Lot #: 42
Price Realized: $1,092.50
($950 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.
Scarce Half-Gallon Stoneware Pitcher with Cobalt Vine and Berries Decoration, Baltimore, MD, circa 1820, ovoid pitcher with footed base and tooled rim, the midsection decorated with a wavy slip-trailed vine bearing tens clusters of berries or grapes. Additional wavy slip-trailed line decoration below rim. Cobalt highlights to handle terminals. Excellent size and decoration with fine, thin-walled potting. Provenance: A fresh-to-the-market example, found in Pennsylvania. 5/8" base chip. Very faint, approximately 4" hairline extending upward from base on front. This line also continues across underside, where it becomes more visible, forming a long thin horizontal crack at base. A chip to exterior of spout and a chip to interior of spout where it meets to the pitcher's rim. A 1 1/4" chipped section to interior of rim, partially visible on exterior of rim.
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