Lot #: 336
Price Realized: $1,440.00
($1,200 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 Two-Gallon Stoneware Jug with Incised Deer Decoration, Stamped "C. HART & SON. / SHERBURNE," New York State origin, circa 1866-1885, ovoid jug with semi-squared spout, decorated with an incised and cobalt-highlighted design of a leaping stag atop a stylized ground with fence. Cobalt highlights to maker's mark and capacity mark. Literature: A related "C. HART & SON. / SHERBURNE" jug with leaping stag is illustrated on p. 125 of Donald Blake Webster's Decorated Stoneware Pottery of North America. The caption for the illustrated jug reads as follows, "What better a design for Charles Hart of Sherburne, New York, than an incised hart, that European cousin of the North American caribou. This neatly incised animal with the lines filled with blue, may have been intended as a standard design, but it is in fact one of very few examples of incised designs by this pottery, and by far the latest of any known incised designs dating after 1866. . . Collection of John Paul Remensnyder." Very nice condition with a few minor in-the-firing flaws to surface, a shallow chip to side of spout, a minor nick to interior of spout, and a minor nick to rear of spout. A salt drip to shoulder on reverse.
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