Lot #: 86
Price Realized: $1,475.00
($1,250 hammer, plus 18% buyer's premium)
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One-Gallon Stoneware Jug with Impressed Decoration, Stamped "COMMERAWS / STONEWARE", Thomas Commeraw, Manhattan, NY, early 19th century, ovoid jug with footed base and tooled spout, featuring an impressed and cobalt-highlighted "clamshell" motif above the cobalt-highlighted maker's mark of African-American potter Thomas Commeraw, "COMMERAWS / STONEWARE". Brushed cobalt highlights to handle terminals. Provenance: Robert Meltzer Collection. Shallow base chips. A circular surface line including a minor chip to side of spout. Some minor roughness to interior of spout, probably in-the-firing. A small in-the-firing contact mark to front. H 11".
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