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OHIO STONEWARE Auction Highlights

$143,750

Important "E.H. Wood / 1840" Stoneware Pitcher, Ezekiel H. Wood, Maysville, KY

WORLD AUCTION RECORD: KENTUCKY STONEWARE

07-16-2016

$25,300

Midwestern Stoneware Crock w/ Elephant and Rider

05-21-2005

$20,700

Stoneware Face Harvest Jug attrib. John Dollings at the Stine Pottery, White Cottage, Ohio, c1870

07-18-2015

$19,550

"Evan G. Ricketts / July 4th, 1833", Maysville, Kentucky Stoneware Pitcher

11-03-2012

$19,550

Ohio Stoneware Inkstand, Dated April 16, 1829

03-02-2013

$19,550

I. THOMAS (Isaac Thomas, Maysville, KY) 1837 Churn

03-02-2013

$17,250

N. COOPER & POWER / MAYSVILLE, KY Stoneware Pitcher

07-19-2014

$14,950

Ohio Stoneware Water Cooler w/ Incised Eagle Design

07-16-2016

$13,800

Ten-Gallon Ohio Stoneware Peacock Crock

07-16-2011

$13,800

Miniature Ohio Stoneware Churn Inscribed "Mary," circa 1840-60

07-18-2015

$12,390

FOWLER'S. / Peach Brandy / 1856 Seven-Gallon Double-Handled Ohio Stoneware Jug with Profuse Cobalt Decoration

11-03-2018

$11,500

Ohio Stoneware Patriotic Crock w/ Rabbit and Bird Decorations

11-06-2010

$11,500

Large-Sized Stoneware Seated Monkey Figure, Southern or Midwestern origin, c1885

10-17-2015

$11,210

Ohio Stoneware Crock w/ Elaborate Hatted Man Decorated

10-28-2017

$10,350

Ohio Stoneware Harvest Jug w/ Applied Eagle, Man w/ Jug, etc.

03-14-2015

$10,063

Ohio Stoneware Water Cooler w/ Incised Owl and Fish Decorations, made for Ross County, OH merchant, Samuel D. Buckwalter (c.1816-1898)

03-19-2016

$9,440

"William Seavey. / OF / COR / Caboose No. 1852" Ohio Stoneware Railroad Jug

07-21-2018

$9,200

Manufactured By / J.H. Miller / Brandenburg, KY. Stoneware Jar

11-01-2008

$8,625

"Henry Rambo" (Newton Township, Muskingum County, Ohio) Stoneware Pitcher

10-31-2009

$8,050

Small-Sized Galena, Illinois, Redware Jug w/ Yellow Slip Circle Design

07-18-2015

$6,900

W.J. SCHROP / SPRINGFIELD, OHIO Ten-Gallon Cooler w/ Flag Bearer Design

07-20-2013

$6,900

Two-Gallon Galena, Illinois, Redware Jug w/ Yellow Slip Circle Decoration

07-18-2015

$6,900

Galena, IL Redware Jug w/ Yellow Slip Moon Designs

07-18-2015

$6,600

Ohio Stoneware Pitcher with American Flag Design

07-17-2004

$6,440

W. Burchnell, London, OH Redware Jar, Morgantown, WV School

07-11-2009

$6,325

Putnam County, Indiana, Stoneware Incised Bird Pitcher, 1844

07-19-2014

$5,900

Outstanding Five-Gallon Akron, Ohio Stoneware Jug with Folk Art Cobalt Owl Decoration

11-03-2018

$5,865

Extremely Large E. M. Ransbottom, Roseville, OH, 1895 Stoneware Jug Cooler

04-10-2010

$5,865

Roseville, OH Stoneware Crock w/ Man Decoration

07-17-2010

$5,750

Ohio Stoneware Crock with Incised Horse

04-10-2010

$5,750

Very Rare Seven-Gallon Double-Handled Stoneware Jug with Cobalt Decoration, Incised "Samuel Young," Belmont County, Ohio.

07-21-2012

$5,605

Attrib. New Ulm, Minnesota, Stoneware Mug

11-03-2018

$5,310

P. H. Smith, Akron, Ohio, Mermaid Crock

07-22-2017

$5,175

Ohio Stoneware Jug w/ Incised Fish

04-10-2010

$4,945

MOORE & COLVIN (Portage County, OH) Stoneware Water Cooler w/ Incised Eagle

11-01-2008

$4,888

J.H. Miller, Brandenburg, Kentucky, Stoneware Crock, "Manufactured, For / C M. Stith / Brandenburg Ky"

07-20-2013

$4,720

W.R. ELAM / COLUMBiA. Tenn Stoneware Jar made by J.H. Miller, Brandenburg, KY

10-28-2017

$4,620

Midwestern Stoneware Crock w/ Incised Folk Art Figure of a Man

05-20-2006

$4,425

Ohio Stoneware Horse Crock

07-22-2017

$4,370

FORT DODGE Pottery (Fort Dodge, Iowa) Stoneware Spaniel Figure

10-31-2009

$4,370

J M T & CO. LONDON Ohio Redware Jar (James M. Thompson; Morgantown, WV School)

04-10-2010

$4,313

Stoneware Jar w/ Folk Art Owl Decoration, possibly Kentucky

07-19-2008

$4,313

Diminutive Stoneware Churn Inscribed "Roseville Ohio" and "Charlie Melick", Roseville, Perry County, Ohio, c1875

10-17-2015

$4,180

16-Gallon Midwestern Stoneware Bird Crock

11-05-2005

$4,025

Midwestern Stoneware Harvest Jug

07-19-2008

$4,025

Miniature Ohio Stoneware Pitcher

07-16-2016

$3,850

10-Gallon Ohio Stoneware Water Cooler

11-04-2006

$3,738

WM W BURCHNELL / LONDON, Madison County, Ohio, Redware Jar, Morgantown, WV School

03-14-2015

$3,738

Miniature Ohio Stoneware Pitcher, probably Westhafer & Lambright, Tuscawaras County

07-18-2015

$3,738

Miniature "Dewey Remember the Maine?" Jug Incised "Made by Ferd Force", Akron Stoneware Company, Ohio, c1900.

10-17-2015

$3,680

Attrib. A.H. Rodenbaugh, Middlebury, Ohio Stoneware Presentation Harvest Jug

11-01-2008

$3,680

1859 Theodore Balsley, Detroit, Michigan, Stoneware Jar w/ Marshall, MI Advertising

11-02-2013

$3,520

10-Gallon Atwater, Ohio, Stoneware Water Cooler

10-30-2004

$3,520

STAG LIQUOR Co., HOPKINSVILLE, KY 20-Gallon Stoneware Jug

10-30-2004

$3,450

JC SMITH / MOGADORE / OHIO Stoneware Jug

11-01-2008

$3,304

Calloway County, Kentucky Stoneware Grave Marker

10-28-2017

$3,220

Large-Sized Stoneware Figure of a Pig, Midwestern

07-19-2008

$3,163

J M T & CO / LONDON, Ohio Jar (James M Thompson, formerly of Morgantown, WV)

11-06-2010

$3,163

Rare Eight-Gallon Ohio Stoneware Water Cooler w/ Molded Eagle

03-14-2015

$3,105

Galena, Illinois Redware Jug

11-03-2012

$3,068

G.A. & J.E. McCARTHEY / MAYSVILLE, KY Stoneware Churn by Eagle Pottery

03-24-2018

$2,950

Cobalt-Decorated Stoneware Figure of a Spaniel, probably Ohio origin, circa 1850-1885

07-22-2017

$2,875

Ohio Stoneware Crock w/ Cow

11-06-2010

$2,875

WM W BURCHNELL / LONDON, Madison County, Ohio, Redware Jar

07-16-2011

$2,875

'OHIO' Stoneware Jug w/ Heron Decoration

07-21-2012

$2,805

Ashland, Kentucky, Advertising Crock (Western PA origin)

11-05-2005

$2,530

G.A. & J.E. McCARTHEY / Maysville, Ky. Advertising Canner (Western PA origin)

07-19-2014

Ohio stoneware has really come into its own over the last decade or so. A large state absolutely filled with potters, Ohio's stoneware shows a large variety of influences, as potters who had worked in the eastern states migrated westward looking for work or a new start. The vast number of stoneware potters working in Ohio have left a lot of room for research into barely-documented or even currently unknown potteries, whose work surfaces on a fairly regular basis. Other Midwestern stoneware tends to take on a similar appearance to that made in the Buckeye State. (Also see our many Anna Pottery Highlights, made by the Kirkpatrick Brothers in Anna, Illinois.)