Lot #: 374
Price Realized: $354.00
($300 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 Slip-Decorated Redware Plates, attributed to the Singer Pottery, Haycock Township, Bucks County, PA, fourth quarter 19th century, all with coggled edges and yellow slip decoration, including one with unusual circular dripped design. Provenance: A fresh-to-the-market lot, discovered by a Singer family descendant in the 1950s in one of several boxes stored away in the eaves of the Singer Pottery warehouse. Largest plate with rim chips and knife marks to interior. Middle-sized plate with several cracks from rim, two rim chips, rim wear, and some surface flakes to interior. Smallest with heavy exfoliation to interior and a flake to edge near rim. Diameter (of largest) 11 1/4".
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