Lot #: 296
Price Realized: $354.00
($300 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.
Two-Gallon Vertical-Handled Stoneware Jar with Two-Color Slip Decoration, Manhattan, NY origin, circa 1790, ovoid jar with footed base, tooled shoulder, and ribbed vertical handles, decorated on the front and reverse in cobalt slip with a stylized slip-trailed foliate design resembling a heart. Handle terminals brushed with rare blue-green slip occasionally found on 18th century stoneware pieces from the Northeastern U.S. Provenance: A fresh-to-the-market example, from a fifty-year private collection. Very nice condition. One rim chip. Two post-firing base chips, a glazed-over base chip, and minor base nicks. Two small surface chips and some small curved surface lines on side of jar. A few in-the-firing contact marks to surface, typical of pieces of this age and origin.
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