Lot #: 479
Price Realized: $316.25
($275 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.
Six-Gallon Stoneware Jar with Cobalt Stripe Decoration, New Geneva, PA origin, circa 1880, semi-ovoid jar with tooled shoulder, flattened rim, and applied lug handles, decorated with a series of straight and wavy freehand stripes, the base with a freehand "6" flanked by dashes. Cobalt highlights to handle terminals. Long spidering hairline on reverse, extending several inches onto underside. Some staining. Faint 6" inverted Y-shaped hairline from rim on left side of front. An additional faint 6" hairline to right side of jar's front. A chip to end of one handle and a nick to opposite end of same handle. Some fry to cobalt.
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