Lot #: 211
Price Realized: $570.00
($475 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
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Fine Two-Gallon Stoneware Pitcher with Elaborate Cobalt Floral Decoration, attributed to Henry Harrison Remmey, Philadelphia, PA, circa 1830, ovoid pitcher with short, tooled collar, brush-decorated around the body and collar with a leafy vine bearing circular blossoms. Additional vine decoration below collar. Cobalt highlights to handle terminals. A 1 1/2" and 1 1/8" rim chip, the latter with a 5 1/2" line descending from it. A thin 7" X-shaped crack ascending from base on front. In-the-firing bloated spots to body. A 1 1/4" chip to underside at edge with associated 1/2" in-the-firing ping. A 7/8" base chip on reverse. A few other minor base chips. A thin horizontal crack through handle. H 13 1/2".
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