Lot #: 141
Price Realized: $1,020.00
($850 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
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Rare Two-Gallon Cobalt-Decorated Stoneware Cake Crock, Red Wing, MN origin, circa 1885, wide, cylindrical form with semi-rounded rim, slip-trailed with a script "2" above a spiraling "bee stinger" motif. The first Red Wing example of this form that we have offered. A few small chips to interior of rim. A 4" horizontal surface crack at base, not visible on interior. Diam. 11" ; H 7 1/4".
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