Lot #: 523
Price Realized: $265.50
($225 hammer, plus 18% buyer's premium)
PLEASE NOTE: This result is 5 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 Cobalt-Decorated Stoneware Jars, Baltimore, MD origin, circa 1875, two cylindrical one-and-a-half-gallon jar with swag decoration, both stamped "P. HERRMANN"; paired with a half-gallon cylindrical jar with cobalt clover decoration below a cobalt band. One Herrmann jar with hairlines in underside, one of which continues a few inches up body of jar, as well as some relatively minor, in-the-firing roughness to rim, which is glazed over. Other Herrmann jar with a shallow 3/4" rim chip and some small in-the-firing pings to surface. Half-gallon jar in excellent, essentially as-made condition with a minor rim nick.
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