Lot #: 148
Price Realized: $1,140.00
($950 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
PLEASE NOTE: This result is 3 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-Gallon Stoneware Crock with Cobalt Chicken Pecking Corn Motif, Stamped "RIEDINGER & CAIRE / POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y.," circa 1870, cylindrical crock with tooled shoulder, semi-rounded rim, and applied lug handles, decorated with a slip-trailed design of a chicken pecking kernels of corn from a stylized ground with grasses behind the bird and two stylized shrubs in the foreground. Some fry to cobalt. Two rim chips on reverse. Two minor chips to one handle. H 10 1/4".
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