Lot #: 55
Price Realized: $480.00
($400 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.
Five-Gallon Stoneware Crock with Cobalt Chicken Pecking Corn Decoration, probably Riedinger & Caire, Poughkeepsie, NY, circa 1870, cylindrical crock with tooled shoulder, semi-squared rim, and applied lug handles, decorated with a large slip-trailed design of a chicken pecking kernels of corn from a heavily-decorated ground with shrubs. Some fry to cobalt. An in-the-firing iron ping to front of rim. Blotches of staining throughout. A 3 1/2" Y-shaped surface line below right handle, not visible on interior. A very faint 3" vertical surface line below one handle, not visible on interior. A small flake to rim on reverse. A small in-the-firing ping to base on right side of crock. A few small rim chips. Minor traces of old gray paint to one handle. H 12 1/4".
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