2 Gal. A. P. DONAGHHO / PARKERSBURG, W. VA Stoneware Stenciled Eagle Jug

Summer 2025 Stoneware Auction

Lot #: 47

Price Realized: $3,900.00

($3,250 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)

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Two-Gallon Cobalt-Decorated Stoneware Jug with Stenciled Eagle Motif, Stenciled "A.P. DONAGHHO, / PARKERSBURG, W. Va.," circa 1875, ovoid jug with tooling to shoulder and spout, featuring bold-faced A.P. Donaghho maker's stenciling above a crisply-stenciled design of a spread-winged eagle, carrying arrows and an olive branch in its talons and a banner in its beak, inscribed "Excelsior Pottery." A small chip and light wear to spout and staining. Otherwise as-made condition with in-the-firing contact/stacker marks, including a 1" piece of adhered clay to side of jug. H 14".