Lot #: 109
Price Realized: $920.00
($800 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.
Rare Stoneware Water Cooler with Cobalt Bird Decoration and 1878 Date, probably Midwestern, 1878, approximately three-gallon, cylindrical form with rounded shoulder, flattened rim, and applied lug handles, the base with applied circular bunghole. Decorated on the front with a folky solid-cobalt design of a bird perched on a stylized branch. Although the bird's legs are brushed in cobalt they are additionally incised into the clay. Slip-trailed above with the underscored date, "1878". Excellent form and unusual design. Provenance: Consigned from Maine. Rim chips. A few minor nicks to bunghole. A small, in-the-firing contact mark to branch design. H 14".
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