Lot #: 373
Price Realized: $295.00
($250 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 Cobalt-Decorated Stoneware Bottles, Northeastern U.S. origin, 19th century, both with heavy cobalt slip application to spout neck, one impressed "HANCOCK & MELVINS' BEER", the other impressed "E-FERRIS". Hancock & Melvins' bottle with two chips to interior of spout. E-Ferris bottle in excellent, essentially as-made condition with some in-the-firing roughness to cobalt, a small in-the-firing iron ping to reverse, and some in-the-firing crazing to base and underside. H (of Ferris bottle) 10 1/2".
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