Lot #: 588
Price Realized: $270.00
($225 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
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Four-Gallon Stoneware Jar with Elaborate Cobalt Floral Decoration, attributed to the Remmey Pottery, Philadelphia, PA, circa 1865, ovoid jar with footed base, flared collar, and ribbed lug handles, brush-decorated with a two-stemmed tulip plant extending up the front and reverse. Wavy cobalt stripe decoration to shoulder on one side and spot decoration to shoulder on reverse. Cobalt highlights to handle terminals and a wavy line of cobalt below each handle. Some shallow filled and colored rim chips. A chip to one handle. A nick and minor line to opposite handle. Long, vertical in-the-firing surface cracks on interior, visible as two long, slightly-recessed areas on the exterior, one of which includes a faint line on parts of it. A long, horizontal in-the-firing line crosses through these two areas near the base. Cracks in underside, including a 4 1/2" thin vertical crack emanating from base on one side, which has been partially colored, as well as a 4 3/4" thin Y-shaped at base on reverse. Staining to surface. H 14 3/8".
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