Lot #: 85
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.
Rare Two-Gallon Stoneware Jug with Cobalt Bird-on-Branch Decoration, Stamped "J. & E. NORTON / BENNINGTON, VT.," circa 1855, cylindrical jug with squared spout, decorated with a slip-trailed design of a long-tailed bird perched on a detailed branch. Cobalt highlights to maker's mark and capacity mark. The rendering of the bird, featuring a pointed beak, open-centered tail, and lacking a crest, is unusual in Norton stoneware production, as is the style of the branch on which it is perched. Essentially as-made condition with an in-the-firing contact mark to front, a small in-the-firing chip to spout, a 3 1/4" in-the-firing U-shaped line at base, and other extremely minor crazing to base. H 14".
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