Lot #: 253
Price Realized: $767.00
($650 hammer, plus 18% buyer's premium)
PLEASE NOTE: This result is 7 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.
Cobalt-Decorated Stoneware Gemel, probably New Haven, CT origin, circa 1830, pair of conjoined, ovoid jugs with tooled spouts and central ribbed handle, each decorated with a brushed circle and dot design. Brushed cobalt highlights to spouts and juncture of jugs and cobalt stripes to handle. Unusual scoring to top edges of spouts. Excellent, essentially as-made condition with some in-the-firing crazing to surface at base of handle. H 8 7/8".
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