Lot #: 407
Price Realized: $501.50
($425 hammer, plus 18% buyer's premium)
PLEASE NOTE: This result is 7 years old, and the American ceramics market frequently changes. Additionally, small nuances of color, condition, shape, etc. can mean huge differences in price. If you're interested in having us sell a similar item for you, please contact us here.
Unusual Three-Gallon Fleischmans, NY Stoneware Advertising Crock with Cobalt Chicken Pecking Corn Decoration, attributed to Brady & Ryan, Ellenville, NY, circa 1885, cylindrical crock with tooled shoulder, semi-rounded rim, and applied lug handles, decorated with a slip-trailed design of a chicken pecking kernels of corn from a stylized ground. Shoulder impressed with the unusual advertising, "CALVIN CROSBY / GROCER / FLEISCHMANS N.Y.". Cobalt highlights to advertising and capacity mark. Very nice condition with two chips and a nick to rim and some water glass staining to interior.
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