Lot #: 421
Price Realized: $360.00
($300 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
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Two Pieces of Northeastern U.S. Stoneware, 19th century, a two-gallon ovoid jar with dipped iron-oxide decoration, stamped "BOSTON," attributed to Frederick Carpenter, Charlestown, MA, circa 1805; paired with a larger ovoid jar with the brushed-cobalt date, "1829," on one side and a stylized floral motif on the reverse, NJ origin. Boston jar missing both handles, with slumped and chipped rim and a 2 1/4" line in underside extending 4" up reverse. NJ jar with a significant crack to one side, a thinner spider crack to opposite side, two in-the-firing base chips, and some small in-the-firing pings to surface. H (of larger jar) 12 5/8".
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