Lot #: 270
Price Realized: $1,888.00
($1,600 hammer, plus 18% buyer's premium)
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Rare and Fine One-Gallon Stoneware Jug with Incised Pheasant Decoration, Manhattan, NY origin, early 19th century, highly-ovoid jug with tooled spout featuring a distinctive, rounded mouth, the front decorated with a large, deeply-incised and cobalt-highlighted design of a pheasant with comb, ringed neck, and detailed wing, standing atop a large stylized mound or leaf. This jug, and a small group of others like it, are closely-related to an important bird-decorated flask, inscribed "Henry Edoson / 1802", in the Weitsman Collection at the New York State Museum; this flask bears additional decoration that indicates it (and, by extension, this pheasant jug) was made at the same pottery as the iconic "Elizabeth Crane / 1811" punch bowl in the collection of the American Folk Art Museum. The curvaceous lines of this pheasant create an appealing folk art image, which is slightly more stylized than most examples of its type known. One of the best among the small body of extant Manhattan incised pheasant jugs. In-the-firing contact mark to front. A small piece of adhered clay to side of jug at shoulder. Tight lines around base, possibly in-the-firing. Some faint, in-the-firing crazing to body. Shallow spout chips. A 1/2" in-the-firing surface chip to reverse.
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