Lot #: 411
Price Realized: $300.00
($250 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
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One-Gallon Lidded Stoneware Jar with Cobalt Grapes Decoration, Stamped "COWDEN & WILCOX. / HARRISBURG .PA," circa 1865, cylindrical jar with flared rim and applied lug handles, brush-decorated with a cluster of grapes hanging between a looping vine and leaf. Cobalt highlights to maker's mark and handle terminals. Jar with significant painted restoration including some touch-up and fry to cobalt, a 2 3/4" and 1 1/4" crack from rim, small rim chips, heavy chipping to inner rim for lid, and a 3/4" in-the-firing fissure to one handle. Paired with a 19th century American salt-glazed stoneware lid, which does not fit accurately. Lid with chip to finial. H (excluding lid) 9 1/2".
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