Lot #: 220
Price Realized: $1,180.00
($1,000 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 Connecticut Stoneware Churns, early 19th century, an approximately one-and-a-half-gallon churn with faint cobalt highlights to handle terminals, impressed "GOODWIN & WEBSTER", Hartford origin; paired with a two-gallon churn with unusual large-sized coggling to shoulder and cobalt highlights to handle terminals. Provenance: A fresh-to-the-market lot, purchased by the consignor decades ago. Goodwin & Webster churn with in-the-firing chipping to rim, minor base chips, and a large Y-shaped crack in underside, extending partway up body of churn. Other churn with heavy chipping to base, a 1 5/8" in-the-firing flake to underside, a few rim chips, short cracks from rim, and some staining to surface.
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