Lot #: 145
Price Realized: $977.50
($850 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.
Fine Two-Gallon Stoneware Jar with Incised Foliate Decoration, Stamped "C. CROLIUS / MANUFACTURER / MANHATTAN-WELLS / NEW-YORK", early 19th century, ovoid jar with footed base, tooled shoulder, and open loop handles, decorated on the reverse with an incised and cobalt-highlighted foliate design featuring splayed, scallop-edge leaves. Front impressed with a large-sized, cobalt-highlighted maker's mark of Clarkson Crolius, Sr. Cobalt highlights to handle terminals. Large surface flakes around lower portion of jar. Three small, shallow chips to interior of rim. A small chip to exterior of rim. A 1" faint hairline to rim on front. A very faint Y-shaped hairline to base, continuning 1" onto underside. Flakes to underside and foot.
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