Rare Stoneware Jug w/ Impressed Federal Eagle Design, attrib. James Morgan & Co., Old Bridge, NJ, c1810

Summer 2023 Stoneware Auction

Lot #: 418

Price Realized: $2,160.00

($1,800 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)

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Rare Two-Gallon Cobalt-Decorated Stoneware Jug with Impressed Federal Eagle Decoration, attributed to the Morgan-van Wickle Pottery, Old Bridge, NJ, circa 1810, ovoid jug with narrow, heavily-tooled spout and semi-rounded mouth, decorated on the front with a large impressed and cobalt-highlighted design of a spread-winged Federal eagle with shield across its chest, clutching an olive branch and arrows in its talons, surrounded by an elliptical border. Two rows of vertical eliptical coggling to shoulder. Cobalt highlights to handle terminals. This lot includes a copy of the difficult-to-find pamphlet, "New Jersey Stoneware," produced for a 1955 exhibition at the Monmouth County Historical Association. Provenance: A sticker on the bottom of the jug faintly reads "Sim Coll.," referring to the well-known collection of important pioneering New Jersey stoneware researcher, Robert J. Sim. In Sim's papers that reside at the Monmouth County Historical Association, a letter of February 15, 1950 to fellow researcher James Brown references this very jug. A long inverted Y-shaped hairline descending from base of semi-rounded mouth to base area of jug. An in-the-making chip to interior of mouth, coated in iron slip. Chipping around base. A drip of glaze to one side. H 15 1/2".