Lot #: 297
Price Realized: $270.00
($225 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 Two-Gallon Cobalt-Decorated Stoneware Jar with Impressed Decoration, Northeastern U.S. origin, early 19th century, ovoid jar with tall collar and open loop handles, the shoulder decorated with wide combed incising overlain with impressed, stylized floral medallions featuring embossed circles. Cobalt highlights to impressed decoration and handle terminals, applied over a slip-coated surface. Fired without slip on interior. The only example of stoneware of this specific style of decoration that we have seen, presumably from an unidentified, short-lived pottery in the Northeastern U.S. Restoration to cracks(?) on underside, including some coloring to cracks at base of jar. An additional, tight 5 1/2" vertical crack emanating from base. H 11 1/2".
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