Lot #: 94
Price Realized: $1,020.00
($850 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
PLEASE NOTE: This result is 3 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 Three-Gallon Brown-Slip-Decorated Stoneware Jug with Triple "Clamshell" Design, Warne & Letts, South Amboy, NJ or Thomas Commeraw, Manhattan, NY, early 19th century, ovoid jug with rounded foot, elaborately-tooled spout, and heavily-ribbed handle, decorated with an impressed triple "clamshell" design flanked by additional impressed crescents and interspersed with impressed tassels. Impressed decoration and handle terminals are highlighted in a greenish-brown slip. While the exact stamps used to produce the design on this jug are definitely a match for those used for many years by Thomas Commeraw, the brown decoration and other attributes are also consistent with the work of Thomas Warne and Joshua Letts in South Amboy. While their pottery is usually easily distinguishable from Commeraw's, shard evidence has shown that at times they stamped their vessels with a decoration that is identical to Commeraw's, making an exact attribution difficult in this case. Numerous spidering cracks extending upward from base and underside. Contact mark on shoulder. Several base chips. H 15 1/2".
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