Lot #: 75
Price Realized: $1,003.00
($850 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.
Fine Three-Gallon Stoneware Jug with Impressed Decoration, Stamped "COMMERAWS / STONEWARE", Manhattan, NY origin, early 19th century, ovoid jug with footed base and tooled spout, decorated with an impressed and cobalt-highlighted drape-and-tassel design resembling three clamshells. Impressed below with the cobalt-highlighted maker's mark, "COMMERAWS / STONEWARE". Brushed cobalt highlights to handle terminals. Provenance: Robert Meltzer Collection. An in-the-firing, glazed-over chip to spout. Some in-the-firing flaws to surface, including a 7/8" piece of adhered clay to reverse and a 1" in-the-firing contact mark / chip to reverse. In-the-firing clay separations to surface on underside. A minor base chip.
Click images to enlarge.
A Few of the Related Items We've Sold
H. MYERS (Baltimore Stoneware) Water Cooler, Made by Henry Remmey, Sr.
Important Profusely-Decorated Incised Stoneware Jar, Manhattan or New Jersey, circa 1750
Highly Important and Monumental Remmey Family Masterwork, Philadelphia, 1828
Very Rare C. CROLIUS / MANHATTAN, WELLS / NEW-YORK Jar w/ Eagle Motifs
