Lot #: 121
Price Realized: $826.00
($700 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.
Scarce Half-Gallon Stoneware Pitcher with Cobalt Vine and Berries Decoration, Baltimore, MD, circa 1820, ovoid pitcher with footed base and tooled rim, the midsection decorated with a wavy slip-trailed vine bearing tens clusters of berries or grapes. Additional wavy slip-trailed line decoration below rim. Cobalt highlights to handle terminals. Excellent size and decoration with fine, thin-walled potting. 5/8" base chip. Very faint, approximately 4" hairline extending upward from base on front. This line also continues across underside, where it becomes more visible, forming a long thin horizontal crack at base. A chip to exterior of spout and a chip to interior of spout where it meets to the pitcher's rim. A 1 1/4" chipped section to interior of rim, partially visible on exterior of rim.
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