Lot #: 530
Price Realized: $1,725.00
($1,500 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 One-Gallon Stoneware Pitcher with Centreville, MD Advertising, Baltimore, MD origin, circa 1875, ovoid pitcher with flared collar and rounded rim, decorated on the front with a two-stemmed clover plant flanked the cobalt-highlighted advertising "HALL & GODWIN / DEALERS IN DRY GOODS / GROCERIES & QUEENS WARE / CENTREVILLE M,D". Cobalt leaf decoration to collar. Cobalt highlights to handle terminals. Centreville, incorporated in 1794, serves as the county seat of Queen Anne's County on Maryland's Eastern Shore. This pitcher is one of a very few examples of the form known with impressed Eastern Shore of Maryland advertising. Missing handle. Otherwise excellent condition with some traces of old yellow paint.
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