Lot #: 246
Price Realized: $1,020.00
($850 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
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Rare One-Gallon Stoneware Jug with Cobalt Watchspring Motif, Stamped "C. CROLIUS, / STONEWARE / MANUFACTURER / Manhattan-Wells. / NEW-YORK.," circa 1815, highly-ovoid jug with tooling to shoulder and spout, decorated with a scrolled cobalt design related to watchspring motifs of 18th century Manhattan and New Jersey. Such designs were highly unusual for this period. Cobalt highlights to handle terminals. Shoulder with oval Clarkson Crolius, Sr. maker's mark. Provenance: From a forty-year private collection. Excellent, essentially as-made condition. A 1" in-the-firing chip to underside at edge and a minor in-the-firing nick to underside at edge. Some shallow chipping to top of spout, caused by touching another object during the firing.
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