Lot #: 128
Price Realized: $295.00
($250 hammer, plus 18% buyer's premium)
PLEASE NOTE: This result is 6 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.
Very Rare Two-Gallon Stoneware Jar with Cobalt Floral Decoration and Combed Incising, probably Bissett Family, Old Bridge, NJ, early 19th century, ovoid jar with rounded rim and applied semi-lunate handle, decorated around the shoulder with combed wavy incising above a single, wavy incised line. Front decorated with a brushed cobalt floral motif. Reverse with unusual cobalt columnar decoration. Cobalt highlights to tops of handles. Based on archaeology undertaken in Old Bridge around the middle of the twentieth century, this is a rare, intact early period Bissett jar, made around the outset of their shop, in the mid 1810's. Provenance: A fresh-to-the-market example, purchased by the consignor decades ago. Chipping and a glazed-over flake to left handle. A large chip to right handle. A slight dent to shoulder on front. A small base chip on reverse. Some in-the-firing flaws to surface.
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