Very Rare American Redware Jar w/ Elaborate Slip Decoration, 18th century

Spring 2025 Stoneware Auction

Lot #: 197

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Sold!  $4,500.

Very Rare Open-Handled Redware Jar with Elaborate Slip Decoration, American, second half 18th century, ovoid jar with footed base, applied vertical handles, and vertical molding to rim, the shoulder embellished with straight and wavy line incising. Lavishly-decorated in yellow slip on the front and reverse with slip-trailed cyma curve motifs accented with dashes, girded between a series of circumferential lines at the shoulder and base. Slip-trailed wavy line decoration to handles. Relatively few slip-decorated redware jars from this period have survived and most of our understanding of what was made during this time has arrived from archaeological evidence. This finely-potted and well-decorated work shares similarities to vessel fragments found in 18th century contexts in Charlestown, Massachusetts and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Some glaze loss to exterior surface. Wear to handles. Chips and wear to rim. Molding below rim with a 7/8" chip and some wear. Glaze wear to interior base area. A 3 1/2" crack from rim. Small, shallow chips around base. H 7 1/2".

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