Lot #: 245
Price Realized: $86.25
($75 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 Three-Gallon Cortland, NY Stoneware Cream Jar with Cobalt Inscription and 1867 Date, Madison Woodruff and Romanzo Smith, Cortland, NY, 1867, ovoid jar with tooled shoulder, semi-squared rim, and applied lug handles, decorated with the slip-trailed cobalt inscription "Cortland / N.Y. / 3 Gallons / 1867". Relatively few examples of Cortland stoneware feature inscribed words. Rim chips. Some water glass staining to surface. Two large in-the-firing chips to underside at edge, caused when the jar adhered to kiln furniture or another object during the firing. The larger chip measures 3 1/2" long. Some blurriness to cobalt.
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