Lot #: 366
Price Realized: $390.00
($325 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
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Unusual Four-Gallon Bulls Head, NY Stoneware Advertising Crock and Cobalt Chicken Pecking Corn Decoration, attributed to Brady & Ryan, Ellenville, NY, circa 1885, cylindrical crock with tooled shoulder, semi-rounded rim, and applied lug handles, decorated with a slip-trailed design of a chicken pecking kernels of corn from a stylized ground. Impressed above with the advertising, "P. SWEET / BULLS HEAD, N.Y." Cobalt highlights to maker's mark and capacity mark. Areas of restoration, to affecting decoration. Some fry to cobalt. A 4 1/2" inverted Y-shaped line to front. A small chip and two minor nicks to interior of rim. H 11 3/4".
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