Lot #: 272
Price Realized: $2,640.00
($2,200 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
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Fine Alkaline-Glazed Stoneware Pitcher with Iron Slip Decoration, TX origin, probably Jefferson S. Nash Pottery, Marion County, TX, circa 1850-1860, ovoid pitcher with tooled body and flaring collar with thin, semi-rounded rim, the surface covered in a mottled brown alkaline glaze with large red-to-dark-brown swathes of iron slip decoration throughout the collar, body, and handle. The glaze treatment on this pitcher is related to that found on two marked "J.S. NASH" jars, a cylindrical example sold in Crocker Farm, Inc's. March 14, 2015 auction, lot 452, and an ovoid example, sold as lot 15 in Crocker Farm, Inc.'s Summer 2020 auction. Featuring a desirable form and glaze, this work is among the most outstanding examples of Texas stoneware to come to auction in recent years. Literature: Illustrated in "Alkaline Art," The Magazine Antiques. Provenance: The Georgeanna H. Greer Collection of Important American Stoneware, Harmer Rooke Galleries, January 13, 1993. Chips and wear to interior of rim and spout. Otherwise excellent condition. H 9 3/8".
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