Lot #: 504
Price Realized: $287.50
($250 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.
Three Alkaline-Glazed Stoneware Face Jugs, Vale, NC origin, late 20th century, a devil jug with lizard on its head, impressed on underside "Joe Reinhardt Pottery / Vale, N.C."; a monster jug with distinctive nose and cobalt-decorated eyes, impressed on underside "Joe Reinhardt Pottery / Vale, N.C."; and a face jug with protruding eyes and china teeth, stamped on forehead "CL", Charles Lisk, Vale, NC. Devil jug with reglued break to lizard and an in-the-firing, glazed-over loss to tip of lizard's tail. All in otherwise excellent, essentially as-made condition. H (of devil jug) 11 1/2".
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