Lot #: 242
Price Realized: $1,320.00
($1,100 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.
Rare Iron-Decorated Stoneware Vase with Elaborate Incised Banding, Middle TN origin, late 19th or early 20th century, ovoid form with flaring collar and crimped rim, the body profusely-decorated with alternating straight and wavy bands of combed incising. Straight bands further embellished with brushed iron slip banding. Albany-slip-glazed interior, which is colored yellowish-green from contact with salt during the firing. The largest and most extravagantly-decorated example of this form that we have seen in Middle Tennessee stoneware, the brushed banding related to a presentation flower jug from the same region, lot 148 in Crocker Farm's July 20, 2019 auction. Excellent, essentially as-made condition. H 8 3/4".
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