Lot #: 143
Price Realized: $2,640.00
($2,200 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
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Rare Redware Dish with Two-Color Slip Decoration, Salem, NC origin, 18th century, decorated on the interior shoulder with alternating straight cream-colored slip and wavy copper slip lines, the interior base with elaborate cream-and-copper-slip floral design. Few dishes of this origin and age become available for sale. Several related dishes as well as a dish fragment, all owned by Old Salem Museum and Gardens in Winston-Salem, NC are listed in the North Carolina Earthenware Collection database created by the University of Wisconsin. Another related example in the same database is owned by the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA. Provenance: Recently surfaced in NC. Heavy wear to interior. Heavy chips and wear to rim. Diam. 11 1/2" ; H 2 3/8".
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