Lot #: 261
Price Realized: $960.00
($800 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
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Fine Alkaline-Glazed Stoneware Jug with Incised Decoration, Sand Mountain, AL origin, circa 1850-1880, narrow-bodied, tapering jug with tooled spout, decorated around the shoulder and base area with combed banding flanking a group of wavy combed lines, the surface covered in a streaky, reddish-brown alkaline glaze. Unusual form. A sealed T-shaped crack on underside, ascending side of jug to shoulder, where it forms a second T. An additional sealed 4 1/2" crack to underside near edge and a minor, approximately 1/2 in-the-firing fissure at bottom edge. H 11 1/2".
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