Lot #: 479
Price Realized: $1,725.00
($1,500 hammer, plus 15% buyer's premium)
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Very Rare and Important Two-Gallon Stoneware Crock with Cobalt Bird Decoration and 1871 Date, Stamped "BROWN BROTHER , / HUNTINGTON, L.I.", 1871, cylindrical crock with tooled shoulder, semi-rounded rim, and applied lug handles, decorated with a folky slip-trailed design of a bird above the date "1871", surrounded by tornado-shaped flourishes. Light cobalt highlights to maker's mark and capacity mark. This crock is the only example of Brown Brothers stoneware we have seen bearing a freehand figural decoration. The bird on this crock may represent a variety of waterfowl or seabird, possibly a duck or seagull, seen frequently by the Brown potters at their site on Huntington Harbor. Provenance: Donald Matties Collection. Literature: Pictured on p. 44 of USEFUL ART: LONG ISLAND POTTERY, Cynthia Arps Corbett, Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities, 1985. Sealed vertical crack from rim on front, with restoration along crack line to rim and area above bird, not affecting the decoration. Restored top-to-bottom crack on side of crock. Restored 6” crack from base on reverse, extending as a 5” hairline on underside. A faint 4” horizontal Y-shaped line on reverse. Two short faint lines at base on reverse. A tiny handle nick.
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