Three-Gallon "CC Fleet / 1884" Tennessee Stoneware Cobalt-Decorated Stoneware Jar

Winter 2025 Auction of the Carole Wahler Collection

Lot #: 99

Price Realized: $270.00

($225 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)

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Three-Gallon Cobalt-Decorated Stoneware Jar, Inscribed "CC Fleet / 1884," TN origin, 1884, semi-ovoid jar with tooled shoulder, flattened rim, and applied lug handles, brush-decorated with a freehand "3" flanked by foliate devices and underscored by stylized flower blossoms. Side of jar inscribed in freehand cobalt, "CC Fleet / 1884," probably the Christopher Columbus Fleet (c. 1854-1914) who appears in federal census schedules in Hardeman County, with a brief time in Davidson County, as well. Suffering from some unspecified issue, Fleet spent many years living in what was then called the Western State Hospital for the Insane at Bolivar. A 1 1/4" flake to top of rim. An additional chip and small stone ping to rim. A 4 1/2" inverted Y-shaped crack from rim, including a small filled chip at rim and a large filled and colored flake to interior leading to a small filled hole on exterior. Scattered surface flakes to body of jar. Some staining. H 14".