Lot #: 73
Price Realized: $660.00
($550 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
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Four-Gallon Stoneware Jar with Cobalt Floral Decoration, attributed to G. & A. Black, Somerfield, PA, circa 1865, ovoid jar with tooled shoulder, squared rim, and ribbed lug handles, brush-decorated on the front and reverse with a sweeping stem bearing three distinctive flowers in the Black style. Cobalt highlights to handle terminals. Among the better examples of Black decoration that we have offered. Rim chips, one of which is glazed over. A thin 7" crack on underside, continuing 9 1/2 up one side. A few small base chips, one of which is glazed over. A 1 1/2" in-the-firing flake to underside along bottom edge. A 2 1/2" heavily-chipped section to molding below rim and other minor chipping to molding below rim. H 14 1/2".
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