Lot #: 147
Price Realized: $360.00
($300 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
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Open-Handled Stoneware Jar with Alkaline Glaze, Catawba Valley, NC origin, probably Ritchie Family, second half 19th century, highly-ovoid jar with incised wavy combing around shoulder, flared rim, and applied vertical-strap handles at shoulder, the surface covered in a streaky olive-green alkaline glaze. In-the-firing clay residue to bottom edge. Cracks in underside, continuing onto base area of jar. A 1/2" hole in midsection. A minor chip to exterior of rim. H 11 1/4".
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