Lot #: 516
Price Realized: $210.00
($175 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
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Six-Gallon Cobalt-Decorated Stoneware Crock, Stamped "O.L. & A.K. BALLARD.," Burlington, VT origin, circa 1870, cylindrical crock with tooled shoulder, semi-rounded rim, and applied lug handles, decorated with a large slip-trailed flowering vine, featuring dots at the center of the blossom. Some bubbling to cobalt. Essentially as-made condition with small hairline cracks, surface wear, and firing imperfections including fry to cobalt decoration. H 13 1/2".
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