Lot #: 415
Price Realized: $230.00
($200 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.
Five-Gallon Stoneware Crock with Cobalt Chicken Pecking Corn Decoration, Stamped "HAXSTUN OTTMAN & CO / FORT EDWARD NY", circa 1870, cylindrical crock with tooled shoulder, semi-rounded rim, and applied lug handles, decorated with a slip-trailed design of a chicken pecking kernels of corn from a stylized ground with shrubs. Cobalt highlights to maker's mark and capacity mark. Large curving crack on reverse. Rim secured with a wire. A 1 1/2" hairline above one handle. A small chip on interior of rim. A small iron ping to reverse. Some spattering of old reddish paint to right side of crock.
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