Lot #: 509
Price Realized: $510.00
($425 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
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Two Cobalt-Decorated Stoneware Jars, Nathan Clark, Sr., Athens, NY, circa 1805-1835, three-gallon crock, cylindrical form with applied lug handles and heavily-coggled rim stamped "N. CLARK / ATHENS," cobalt highlights to rim, handle terminals, and large, pre-firing base chip; and a one-and-a-half-gallon ovoid jar with flared rim and applied lug handles, brush-decorated with a stylized flowering plant on both sides, attributed to Howe and Clark, Athens, NY, circa 1805-1813. Provenance: Warren F. Hartmann Collection. Chips and firing imperfections to both. H (of tallest) 10 1/4".
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