Lot #: 235
Price Realized: $862.50
($750 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.
Extremely Rare Three-Gallon Stoneware Jug with Impressed Floral, Coggled Circle, and Iron-Oxide Decoration, attributed to Xerxes Price, Sayreville, NJ, early 19th century, finely-potted jug with ovoid body, ribbed strap handle, and tall, heavily-tooled spout with tapered mouth, the front decorated with a highly-unusual decoration of an impressed tulip medallion surrounded by five coggled circular impressions of various sizes. Decoration and handle terminals are brushed over with amber-colored iron slip. This outstanding design, which may be an attempt to created a large daisy-shaped blossom, in which an impressed flower is used to form the center, is the first we have seen from New Jersey. The tulip medallion on this example links it to the work of Xerxes Price, who used this stamp to decorate at least one of his few known signed pots. The wonderful impressed and coggled treatment, which creates a dramatic folk art expression in clay, is possibly an attempt at recreating a somewhat similar technique employed by Clarkson Crolius, Sr., of Manhattan, NY. Excellent, essentially as-made condition with a smooth, typical contact mark on reverse, which occurred in the firing. H 15 1/2".
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