Lot #: 126
Price Realized: $201.25
($175 hammer, plus 15% buyer's premium)
PLEASE NOTE: This result is 8 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.
Three Utilitarian Pottery Flasks, American, 19th century, a lead-and-manganese-glazed redware example and two salt-glazed stoneware examples. Redware example with a few flakes to spout. some wear to surface, and a base wear. Shorter stoneware example in excellent, essentially as-made condition with a few minor in-the-firing base chips. Taller stoneware example was salvaged from a body of water and has some crazing to one side, some staining, and a remnant of a barnacle on underside. H (of redware flask) 7 3/4".
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