Lot #: 236
Price Realized: $1,320.00
($1,100 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
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Scarce Two-Gallon Stoneware Jar with Cobalt Fish Decoration, Stamped "W. HART. / OGDENSBURGH," NY State origin, circa 1858-1869, semi-ovoid jar with tooled shoulder, flared collar, and applied lug handles, decorated with a slip-trailed design of a fish with striped gill and spotted body above a stylized flourish of graduated stripes. Cobalt highlights to maker's mark, capacity mark, and handle terminals. Some fry to cobalt. A glazed-over ping to shoulder on front. A 1 3/8" rim chip on front. Two smaller rim chips on reverse. Nicks and wear to inner rim for lid. A 1 1/2" glazed-over, in-the-firing iron ping to reverse beside a smaller glazed-over iron ping. A 6 1/2" Y-shaped crack to underside, extending 6" up proper left side of jar's front. A 2" diagonal surface line at base on front, not visible on interior. A small in-the-firing iron ping to proper left side of jar's front. In-the-firing base chips. H 10 7/8".
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