Lot #: 275
Price Realized: $1,020.00
($850 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
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Three-Gallon Stoneware Jar with Elaborate Freehand Cobalt Decoration, Western PA origin, circa 1865, cylindrical jar with incised banding to midsection, tooled shoulder, semi-rounded rim, and ribbed lug handles, brush-decorated on the upper half with upswept swags below a series of stylized drapes. Large freehand-script "3" below, flanked by swags. Freehand stripes to shoulder, midsection, and base. Cobalt highlights to handle terminals. The potter incised an X to base area. A thin 4" crack on underside, continuing 7" up base on proper right side of jar's front. Minor water glass staining. An in-the-firing ping near base on reverse. H 14".
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