Lot #: 70
Price Realized: $2,300.00
($2,000 hammer, plus 15% buyer's premium)
PLEASE NOTE: This result is 14 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.
Important Glazed Redware Jar with Manganese Decoration of a Hatted Man Firing a Gun, PA or New England origin, second quarter 19th century, cylindrical jar with pronounced foot, tapered shoulder and squared rim, decorated in manganese with a coated man wearing a large feathered hat and firing a gun. Decoration extends around the circumference of the jar and includes a tree and several brushed splotches, perhaps representing birds. Examples of American redware with figural decorations applied in glaze are considered exceedingly rare. An outstanding work of ceramic folk art. Wear to rim and edge at shoulder. Base chip. H 8 1/2".
Click images to enlarge.
A Few of the Related Items We've Sold
Fine Philadelphia Redware Plate, 18th century
Rare Alamance County, NC Redware Pitcher, late 18th or early 19th century
Very Rare Redware Bowl attrib. Solomon Loy, Alamance County, NC, c1825-40
Exceptional Glazed WM. W. BURCHNELL / LONDON (Ohio) Redware Jar
Exceedingly Rare and Important Solomon Grimm, Rockland Township, Berks County, PA Redware Jar, 1820
C.A. HAUN, Greene County, TN Redware Jar
Outstanding Anthony Baecher, Winchester, VA, Redware Sugar Bowl
