Extremely Rare CAMPBELL & MORTON / PENN YAN Stoneware Jar w/ Cobalt Decoration

Spring 2020 Stoneware Auction

Lot #: 341

Price Realized: $780.00

($650 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)

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Extremely Rare Two-Gallon Cobalt-Decorated Stoneware Jar, Stamped "CAMPBELL & MORTON / PENN YAN," George Campbell and Justus Morton, Penn Yan, NY, circa 1848, ovoid jar with tooled shoulder, squared rim, and applied lug handles, decorated with a wavy swath of cobalt below the cobalt-highlighted maker's mark of the short-lived partnership of potters, George Campbell and Justus Morton. Brushed cobalt "2" to shoulder. Cobalt highlights to handle terminals. This jar is one of a very few surviving examples bearing this stamp. The mark was first documented by stoneware historians, Steven B. Leder and Jack McMackin, in a November 2009 article published in Maine Antiques Digest. Literature: For a related jar, see Leder and McMackin, "Campbell & Morton/ Penn Yan: A Newly Discovered Stoneware Manufacturing Partnership," Maine Antiques Digest, November 2009. Excellent condition with a small chip to exterior of rim on reverse, some very minor chipping and wear to interior of rim, and some staining to base.