Lot #: 410
Price Realized: $402.50
($350 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.
Extremely Rare Cobalt-Decorated "MUSTARD MANUFACTORY" Stoneware Advertising Jar, Baltimore, MD origin, circa 1875, cylindrical jar with tooled shoulder and semi-squared rim, featuring the impresed and cobalt-highlighted advertising, "H. WITTICHS / MUSTARD MANUFACTORY / COR HIGH & GRANBY ST. / BALTIMORE". Decorated around the shoulder with brushed swags. A wonderful example of Baltimore advertising stoneware featuring exceptional subject matter. Wide top-to-bottom crack on left side of jar. Tight spider cracks in underside, including one spider crack that extends 6 1/2" diagonally onto body of jar. Base chips. A glazed-over rim chip. An in-the-firing stone ping on interior of rim. A 2 3/8" section of shallow chipping to top of rim.
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