Lot #: 512
Price Realized: $57.50
($50 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 Pieces of Utilitarian Pottery, American, late 19th or early 20th century, a ten-gallon barrel-form cooler with light-blue glaze and relief decoration of a woman at a well on the front and a large flower bouquet on the reverse, the underside marked with a number 10 within a crown, attributed to Robinson Clay Products Company, Akron, Ohio; paired with a semi-ovoid jar with tab handles and dark-brown alkaline glaze, marked "3" on both sides, Southeastern U.S. origin. Cooler with a 4" hairline from rim, minor nicks to seam lines, and a long glazed-over separation line to interior. Three-gallon Southern jar with a crack from rim on one side passing through a small patched hole. H (of cooler) 17".
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