Lot #: 5
Price Realized: $488.75
($425 hammer, plus 15% buyer's premium)
PLEASE NOTE: This result is 10 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.
Exceptional Three-Gallon Stoneware Jug with Impressed Hearts and Iron-Oxide Decoration, attributed to Frederick Carpenter, Charlestown, MA, circa 1815, skillfully-potted, highly-ovoid jug with ribbed handle and heavy tooling to spout and foot, decorated with a dipped iron-oxide decoration to the upper portion and base. Shoulder impressed with three overlapping hearts, presumably denoting three gallons. Wonderful form. Some in-the-firing contact marks to surface, typical of stoneware from this period. Approximately 4" thin diagonal crack at base, continuing approximately 3 1/2" onto underside. Faint 1 1/2" Y-shaped line to reverse. 1 1/2" chip to underside at edge. An additional small chip to underside at edge, probably in-the-firing.
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