Lot #: 340
Price Realized: $420.00
($350 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
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Four-Gallon Cobalt-Decorated Stoneware Jar with Wheeling, WV Advertising, Western PA origin, circa 1880, cylindrical jar with tooled shoulder, semi-rounded rim, and applied lug handles, featuring H.F. Behrens maker's stenciling surrounding stenciled floral motifs. Decorated above with three freehand stripes and vining and below with a single freehand stripe. Cobalt highlights to handle terminals. Chips to handles. Areas of wear to cobalt. A few in-the-firing contact marks to surface. Light wear to top of rim. H 14 1/2".
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