Lot #: 299
Price Realized: $206.50
($175 hammer, plus 18% buyer's premium)
PLEASE NOTE: This result is 5 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.
Small-Sized Stoneware Jar with Boston, MA Advertising, Northeastern U.S. origin, 19th century, cylindrical jar with rounded shoulder and straight collar, the shoulder impressed with the cobalt-highlighted advertising, "BUTTER / FROM / JAMES.G.SWAN / NO 96 COMMERCIAL ST / BOSTON". James Gilchrist Swan (1818-1900) lived a colorful life with various careers from the East Coast to West Coast, including working as an oysterman, customs inspector, lawyer, judge, railroad promoter, ethnographer, and author. He spent much of his life living in and documenting life in the Washington Territory and the Northwest Indian tribes. This jar indicates Swan at one point owned some sort of general store in Boston. Small base chips. A shallow flake to interior of rim. H 7 1/2".
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