Lot #: 479
Price Realized: $316.25
($275 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.
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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