Lot #: 496
Price Realized: $480.00
($400 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
PLEASE NOTE: This result is 2 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, NY State origin, circa 1875, cylindrical crock with semi-rounded rim and applied lug handles, decorated with a slip-trailed design of a chicken pecking kernels of corn from a stylized ground. Significant restoration throughout, not affecting decoration. Handles are painted, although the extent of their restoration is unknown. An in-the-firing iron ping to underside. A 4" Y-shaped surface line to reverse. Two small in-the-firing iron pings to side of crock and a 1 1/4" bloated spot to shoulder on reverse. Crock is somewhat out-of-round. H 12 1/8".
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