Lot #: 422
Price Realized: $460.00
($400 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-Gallon Lidded Stoneware Jar with Profuse Cobalt Floral Decoration, attributed to the Remmey Pottery, Philadelphia, PA, circa 1865, ovoid jar with flared collar, footed base, and ribbed lug handles, decorated with a large brushed floral motif extending across the front and reverse. Wavy cobalt stripe above. Cobalt highlights to handle terminals and wavy line of cobalt underneath each handle. Includes a loosely-fitting, cobalt-swag-decorated lid, not original to the jar, probably of Remmey, Philadelphia manufacture. Jar with three chips to interior of rim, an iron ping to rim, and an in-the-firing contact mark to one side. Lid with a chip and two nicks to flange on underside as well as a salt drip to top surface. H (of jar) Diam. (of lid) 9".
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