Lot #: 295
Price Realized: $840.00
($700 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
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Rare Cobalt-Decorated Stoneware Chicken Waterer, Stamped "THOS. HAIG / 975 N. 2ND ST. / PHILA," Thomas Haig, Jr., Philadelphia, PA, circa 1875, dome-shaped form with handles, flat finial, and hooded watering trough at front, brush-decorated on the back with a two-stemmed flowering plant over a Bristol-slip-glazed surface. Three stylized leaves or flowers at base and one on top of hood. Handle terminals highlighted in cobalt, with an additional curved line of cobalt underneath each handle. Reverse base impressed with cobalt-highlighted Thomas Haig maker's mark. A 3/8" chip and minor nick to watering trough. A 1 1/4" chipped section to proper right handle. A 1/2" chip to opposing handle. H 8".
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