HAXSTUN, OTTMAN & CO. / FORT EDWARD, N.Y. Stoneware Crock w/ Pecking Chicken

July 20, 2019 Stoneware Auction

Lot #: 246

Price Realized: $442.50

($375 hammer, plus 18% buyer's premium)

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Three-Gallon Stoneware Crock with Cobalt Chicken Pecking Corn Decoration, Stamped "HAXSTUN, OTTMAN & CO. / FORT EDWARD, N.Y.", circa 1870, cylindrical crock with tooled shoulder, semi-rounded rim, and applied lug handles, decorated with a slip-trailed design of a fat-bodied chicken perched on a shrubbed ground pecking kernels of corn. Staining to surface. Light exfoliation to underside. A 5/8" in-the-firing iron ping to reverse. A tiny in-the-firing iron ping to front. Rear end of left handle with two small chips and two short lines. Some light staining. Light exfoliation to underside. A few scratches to Albany slip on interior.