Lot #: 296
Price Realized: $501.50
($425 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.
Cobalt-Decorated Stoneware Canning Jar, Stenciled "NEW GENEVA POTTERY", New Geneva, PA origin, circa 1875, tapered jar with tooling to midsection and shoulder and semi-rounded wax sealer rim, the front decorated with freehand straight and wavy stripes along with the stenciled signature, "NEW GENEVA POTTERY". Provenance: From an over forty-year private collection. Excellent, essentially as-made condition with some in-the-firing discoloration to reverse and a glazed-over stone ping to right side of jar. H 9 1/2".
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