Lot #: 461
Price Realized: $295.00
($250 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.
Four Pieces of Utilitarian Pottery, 19th and 20th centuries, a diminutive black-glazed, engine-turned coffeepot, stamped on underside "JAMES. M. SHAW & CO. / NEW YORK"; a lead-glazed redware jar with daubed manganese decoration, Norwalk CT or Huntington, Long Island, NY origin; an approximately one-half-gallon, stripe-decorated stoneware jug, probably Palatine, WV origin; and a brown-and-white jug with advertising for "SHINNECOCK / DISTRIBUTING CO, / RIVERHEAD & / GREENPORT, N.Y.", impressed on underside, "R.C.P. CO. AKRON/ O.", Robinson Clay Products Co., Akron, Ohio. Coffeepot missing lid. Redware jar with a Y-shaped crack on underside, extending onto base area, heavy rim wear, handle wear, some surface wear, and base chips. Stripe-decorated jug in excellent, essentially as-made condition. Greenport jug in excellent condition with two minor chips to shoulder and a tiny chip to underside at edge. H (of stripe-decorated jug) 9 3/4".
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