LOGIN TO BID ON THIS LOT. (Don't have an account? It's free and easy to SIGN UP.)
Two Cobalt-Decorated Stoneware Jars, Shenandoah Valley of VA origin, second half 19th century, a two-gallon cylindrical jar with brushed cobalt swag decoration over a slip coating, stamped "S. BELL & SON. / STRASBURG," circa 1890; paired with a smaller, cylindrical jar with brushed swag-and-hanging-flower motif, possibly Carver & Wightman, Edinburg, VA, circa 1850-1865. Provenance: From a fifty-year VA collection. Taller with a small in-the-firing rim chip and a a crack in underside, extending several inches up body of jar. Shorter with various lines, mostly not visible on interior, a 3/4" glazed-over rim chip, other minor rim chips, some in-the-firing surface flaws, and a minor glazed-over chip to bottom edge. H (of shorter) 8 3/4".