Lot #: 267
Price Realized: $345.00
($300 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 Hackensack, N.J. Stoneware Advertising Crock with Cobalt Chicken Pecking Corn Decoration, circa 1880, cylindrical crock with tooled shoulder, tall rim, and applied lug handles, decorated with a slip-trailed design of a chicken pecking kernels of corn atop a stylized ground. Impressed at the shoulder with the cobalt-highlighted advertising "BANTA BROTHERS. / HACKENSACK, N.J.". Large spots of staining, primarily on reverse. Staining to underside. A 1" base flake. A 2 1/4" area of shallow chipping to interior of rim. A few other chips on exterior of rim. A very faint 3" Y-shaped surface line to shoulder, which does not appear to go through to the interior. A few old paint drips to surface. Water glass staining to interior.
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