Lot #: 195
Price Realized: $206.50
($175 hammer, plus 18% buyer's premium)
PLEASE NOTE: This result is 6 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.
Three-Gallon Stoneware Jar with Cobalt Floral Decoration, Beaver, PA origin, circa 1865, semi-ovoid jar with tooled shoulder, semi-rounded rim, and applied lug handles, decorated with a brushed undulating vine bearing three open-centered tulip blossoms, applied over a slip-coated surface. Cobalt highlights to handle terminals. Provenance: Collection of Lorren Lambert, Staunton, VA. Traces of whitish residue to base. Two short, in-the-firing separations on underside. A thin 4" crack from rim on reverse. A faint 1 1/4" line in rim above one handle. Some bubbling to edges of cobalt.
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