Lot #: 85
Price Realized: $2,400.00
($2,000 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
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Salt-Glazed Stoneware Vase, Middle TN origin, late 19th or early 20th century, ovoid form with pronounced foot, horizontal strap handle, and two-tiered rim with pinched treatment, the surface dipped in reddish-brown slip and covered in a salt glaze. Provenance: Vase includes Wahler's handwritten note: "My 1st piece purchased in late 70's off the top of the water-melon man's truck at Labor Day Market for $15.00 in Monterey. His wife had purchased it in the twenties also." A 5/8" chip to bottom edge of rim and a few other minor rim nicks. H 10".
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