Lot #: 141
Price Realized: $172.50
($150 hammer, plus 15% buyer's premium)
PLEASE NOTE: This result is 9 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.
Small-Sized Redware Inkwell with Domed Top, American, late 18th to early 19th century, with unusual domed top and circumferential incised line accents, the top fashioned with a central hole surrounded by three smaller quill holes. Surface covered in a blackish lead-and-manganese glaze. Provenance: A fresh-to-the-market example, from an inkwell collection amassed over the last thirty years, consigned to this auction. Heavy wear to central hole and upper edge area. Diameter 2 3/4".
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