Lot #: 512
Price Realized: $57.50
($50 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.
Two Pieces of Utilitarian Pottery, American, late 19th or early 20th century, a ten-gallon barrel-form cooler with light-blue glaze and relief decoration of a woman at a well on the front and a large flower bouquet on the reverse, the underside marked with a number 10 within a crown, attributed to Robinson Clay Products Company, Akron, Ohio; paired with a semi-ovoid jar with tab handles and dark-brown alkaline glaze, marked "3" on both sides, Southeastern U.S. origin. Cooler with a 4" hairline from rim, minor nicks to seam lines, and a long glazed-over separation line to interior. Three-gallon Southern jar with a crack from rim on one side passing through a small patched hole. H (of cooler) 17".
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