Lot #: 276
Price Realized: $977.50
($850 hammer, plus 15% buyer's premium)
PLEASE NOTE: This result is 11 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.
Outstanding Three-Gallon Stoneware Jar with Cobalt Tulip Decoration and Lid, Baltimore, MD origin, circa 1835, ovoid jar with flared rim and applied tab handles, heavily-decorated with three brushed tulips extending up both sides. Highly unusual abstract wavy line decoration under each handle. Includes a Philadelphia stoneware lid with cobalt swag decoration, third quarter 19th century. Excellent form and stunning decoration. A 3/8" shallow rim chip and other much smaller rim chips. Two small chips at edge on underside. Other small base nicks. A small chip to end of one handle. In-the-firing vertical separation on interior, not visible on exterior. Chip to knob of lid, a shallow 1 1/2" chip to flange on underside of lid, and other minor chips to flange.
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