Lot #: 188
Price Realized: $360.00
($300 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
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Half-Gallon Stoneware Jar with Cobalt Foliate Decoration, attributed to William Nichols, Poughkeepsie, NY, circa 1823, ovoid jar with tooled shoulder and applied lug handles, brush-decorated with a distinctive fanned foliate motif ascribed to William Nichols during his short-lived Poughkeepsie, New York pottery. Provenance: Warren F. Hartmann Collection. Cobalt highlights to handle terminals. One handle with a large glazed-over iron ping and two short hairlines. Other handle with three short, faint hairlines. A 1" shallow in-the-firing base flake. A minor in-the-firing iron ping near base. Staining to surface. H 7 3/4".
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