Lot #: 99
Price Realized: $590.00
($500 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.
Five-Gallon Alkaline-Glazed Stoneware Jar, Edgefield District, SC origin, probably B.F. Landrum, circa 1850, highly-ovoid jar with raised lug handles and thin, semi-rounded rim, the surface covered in a pale-olive alkaline glaze. Very nice condition. Two small chips to one handle. A small chip to opposite handle. Some in-the-firing pings to surface. Some minor chips and wear to rim. Some in-the-firing surface fissures to interior base and underside, neither of which extend fully through to opposite side. H 16 1/2".
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