Lot #: 302
Price Realized: $360.00
($300 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
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Unusual Two-Gallon Stoneware Jar with Cobalt Bird-on-Branch Decoration and Portland, ME Advertising, Ballard Vale, MA origin, circa 1880, cylindrical jar with flared collar and applied lug handles, decorated with a slip-trailed design of a crested bird perched on a branch. Impressed above with the advertising, "WM E THOMES / PORTLAND / ME." A 1 1/2" surface line from rim. Other minor crazing to rim area. A chip to side of rim and a minor chip to interior of rim. Staining throughout. A short horizontal crack to edge of each handle, one including a tiny chip. A few tiny nicks to inner rim. H 12 1/8".
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