Lot #: 504
Price Realized: $287.50
($250 hammer, plus 15% buyer's premium)
PLEASE NOTE: This result is 8 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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