Lot #: 492
Price Realized: $780.00
($650 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
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Three Stoneware Crock with Cobalt Bird-on-Branch Decorations, Ballardvale, MA origin, circa 1885, two, three, and four-gallon cylindrical crocks, all with related slip-trailed designs of a crested bird perched on a detailed branch. Four-gallon crock with a large reglued section on front, two adjacent rim chips on reverse, a rim chip on front, and minor base chip. Three-gallon crock with rim chips, a 4" X-shaped line to front, significant cracks, chips to one handle, a chip to opposite handle, and minor chipping to base. Two-gallon crock with a 4 1/2" crack from rim on side of crock, staining to surface, a chip to each handle, a small in-the-firing iron ping to rim. and short, in-the-firing surface lines at base. H (of tallest) 11 1/8."
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