Six-Gallon Strasburg, VA Stoneware Jar w/ Unusual Wooden Make-Do Repair

March 14, 2015 Stoneware Auction

Lot #: 94

Price Realized: $201.25

($175 hammer, plus 15% buyer's premium)

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Six-Gallon Stoneware Jar with Cobalt Floral Decoration and Unusual Make-Do Repair, Strasburg, VA origin, circa 1880, large-sized, cylindrical jar with tooled shoulder, squared rim, and applied lug handles, decorated on both sides with a brushed design of opposing swags flanking a hanging flower. Shoulder surrounding by highly-unusual wooden make-do banding. Provenance: A fresh-to-the-market example from a Southeastern Virginia collection amassed decades ago. Significant cracks, stabilized by wooden make-do.




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