Lot #: 415
Price Realized: $230.00
($200 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.
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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