Lot #: 71
Price Realized: $4,500.00
($3,750 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
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Exceedingly Rare and Important Cobalt-Decorated Stoneware Pitcher, Stamped "S. LOY," Solomon Loy, Alamance County, NC, circa 1855, ovoid, thin-walled pitcher with flared collar, brush-decorated with an arched cobalt highlight over the maker's mark, including a three-petaled flower blossom at the top of the arch and an additional petal-like stroke to its left. Brushed cobalt highlights to handle terminals. Surface covered in a heavy salt glaze. Proficient in both slip-decorated redware and salt-glazed stoneware production, Solomon Loy ranks among the state's most artistic and influential potters. This work is the only signed pitcher by his hand that we have seen. The lavish, flowing salt runs on the vessel's right side are a hallmark of his stoneware pieces. A professionally-restored, approximately 3" x 1" section to left side of rim, including a curving crack descending from it. A 1 1/2" hairline from rim on pitcher's right side, partially visible on interior. Two other shorter, faint surface lines from rim on pitcher's right side, extremely minor and likely in-the-firing. H 11 1/2".
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