Lot #: 42
Price Realized: $230.00
($200 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.
Two DEMUTH'S SNUFF / LANCASTER, PA Stoneware Jars, American, circa 1900, both of similar squat form with Bristol-slip-glazed surfaces and the black-glazed advertising "DEMUTH'S CELEBRATED / SNUFF. / ESTABLISHED 1770 / LANCASTER, PA.". Provenance: David Musser Collection. One with original Bristol-slip-glazed lid, the other with salt-glazed lid, not original to the jar. A small chip and tiny nick to Bristol-slip-glazed lid. Jar with original lid in excellent, essentially as-made condition, its lid with a small chip and two minor nicks. Jar with salt-glazed lid has two chips to rim of jar and some water glass staining to lid. H (of jar including original lid) 6 3/4".
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