L.D. FUNKHAUSER / STRASBURG / VA Stoneware Crock, c1880

Summer 2025 Stoneware Auction

Lot #: 556

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Three-Gallon Stoneware Crock with Cobalt Floral Decoration, Stamped "L.D. FUNKHAUSER / STRASBURG / VA," circa 1880, cylindrical crock with tooled shoulder, squared rim, and applied lug handles, brush-decorated with stylized floral motifs on the front and reverse. Cobalt highlights to handle terminals. Cobalt dash decoration under one handle and impressed L.D. Funkhauser maker's mark and three-gallon capacity mark under opposing handle. Provenance: From a fifty-year VA collection. Shallow chipping to rim. One handle with a glazed-over chip and smaller in-the-firing iron ping. In-the-firing contact marks to base area in the form of a surface flakes and a recessed area. A 1 3/4" chip to underside and a small flake to edge of underside. A 3 1/4" vertical line at base. H 13 1/2".



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