Lot #: 392
Price Realized: $1,560.00
($1,300 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
PLEASE NOTE: This result is 4 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 Graduated Group of Five Cobalt-Decorated Stoneware Chicken Waterers, probably NJ origin, circa 1885, each of domed form with hooded watering trough and knob-shaped finial, decorated with cobalt around the trough's juncture with the waterer as well as cobalt around the knob. Ranging from roughly pint-sized to two-and-a-half-gallons. Larger waterers impressed with one-gallon, two-gallon, and two-and-a-half-gallon capacity marks. Significant cracks to two-gallon example. All in otherwise good to excellent condition, some having chips. H (of smallest) 5 1/2" ; H (of largest) 13".
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