Lot #: 318
Price Realized: $354.00
($300 hammer, plus 18% buyer's premium)
PLEASE NOTE: This result is 7 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.
Rare Small-Sized Stoneware Jar with Cobalt Watchspring Decoration, Manhattan, NY or Cheesequake, NJ origin, fourth quarter 18th century, ovoid jar with footed base, tooled shoulder, and slightly-flared rim, decorated with three slip-trailed watchspring motifs. Excellent size and desirable early-period decoration. Provenance: A fresh-to-the-market example, from a fifty-year private collection. Heavy chipping to base. Some short, faint lines to base area, likely in-the-firing, all typical of pieces of this age and origin. Three small rim chips. Some lines and crazing to top of rim, presumably in-the-firing. Three small flakes to shoulder. An in-the-firing, 5/8" surface near base, beside a small in-the-firing contact mark. A 1 1/2" piece of adhered clay to shoulder. H 7 3/4".
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