Lot #: 199
Price Realized: $660.00
($550 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
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One-and-a-Half-Gallon Stoneware Batter Pail with Cobalt Floral Decoration, Stamped "COWDEN & WILCOX / HARRISBURG," PA origin, circa 1865, ovoid form with tubular pouring spout, pierced clay tabs, and handle at base on reverse, brush-decorated on the reverse with a horizontal tulip motif and on the front with a wreath surrounding the base of the handle. Cobalt accents, maker's mark, capacity mark, and applied clay tabs. Provenance: Herb and Carol Hausmann Collection. Full restoration to one pierced tab. Later paint to other tab along its juncture with the pail. An in-the-firing iron ping to spout. A thin 4" crack from rim. Fry to cobalt, primarily on reverse. A minuscule nick to handle at base. H 9 3/4".
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