Lot #: 10
Price Realized: $1,380.00
($1,200 hammer, plus 15% buyer's premium)
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Extremely Rare Stoneware Pitcher with Incised Foliate Decoration, Stamped "C. CROLIUS / MANUFACTURER / MANHATTAN-WELLS / NEW-YORK," circa 1810, approximately one-and-a-half-gallon ovoid pitcher with footed base and inwardly-tapered spout, the front decorated with a crisply-incised foliate design highlighted in cobalt slip. Additional cobalt highlights around handle terminals. Impressed below the spout with oval Clarkson Crolius, Sr. maker's mark. Excellent form and decoration. Signed Crolius pitchers are considered rare and few incised examples of this form are known. Missing handle. 1 3/8" chip to left side of spout with 1" line descending from it. Minor glazed-over chip to rim on reverse. Group of shallow glazed-over base. One post-firing base chip. Minor 1 1/2" in-the-firing surface line to left side of shoulder, not visible on interior. H 11".
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