Lot #: 153
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×Sold! $12,000.
Very Rare Miniature Salt-Glazed Stoneware Jar with Elaborate Incised Decoration, attributed to Chester Webster, Randolph County, NC, circa 1850, delicately-potted, thin-walled jar of ovoid form with flaring collar and thin, semi-rounded rim, decorated around the body with four incised flower blossoms with impressed circular centers and at the shoulder with intricate inverted drapes accented with impressed circles between dentile incising. Exceptional size and condition featuring strong decoration in Webster's Hartford, Connecticut-trained style. Literature: Illustrated in Scarborough, North Carolina Decorated Stoneware: The Webster School of Folk Potters, second edition, pg. 105. Provenance: Descended in the Craven family of potters. Excellent, essentially as-made condition with some extremely minor base wear, possibly in-the-firing. H 3 5/8".