Lot #: 395
Price Realized: $180.00
($150 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
PLEASE NOTE: This result is 4 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.
Highly Unusual Half-Gallon Stoneware Jar with Cobalt Horse Decoration, NY State origin, 19th century, cylindrical jar with rounded shoulder and squared rim, the surface covered in Albany slip and decorated with a stenciled cobalt design of two trotting horses atop a brushed ground. Numerous tiny to small chips to rim. An X-shaped hairline on underside, which continues onto jar in four places. In one place it forms a wide Y at base, in another it continues 2" up body of jar, and in two other places it forms a very short vertical line at base. H 7 1/2".
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