Lot #: 344
Price Realized: $720.00
($600 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
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Fine Six-Gallon Stoneware Jar with Stenciled Cobalt Rose Decoration, Stenciled "WILKINSON & FLEMING. / SHINNSTON. / W.VA.," circa 1875, semi-ovoid jar with tooled shoulder, semi-rounded rim, and applied lug handles, featuring Wilkinson & Fleming maker's stenciling surrounding a large stenciled rose. Stenciled rose-and-tulip motifs flank the signature and intricate scrolled stenciling appears above. Base decorated with a stenciled "6" flanked by tulips. A thin Y-shaped crack across underside, extending up body of jar in three places: 5 3/4" up side of jar below handle, 2 1/2" up side of jar below opposite handle, and 1 1/8" up reverse. H 16 7/8".
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