Lot #: 525
Price Realized: $240.00
($200 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
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Two Cobalt-Decorated Stoneware Jars, OH origin, second quarter 19th century, both of ovoid form with flaring rims and applied lug handles, one impressed "J. BENNAGE. 1836," with cobalt highlights to the maker's mark and front handle terminals, the other impressed with the cobalt-highlighted maker's mark, "D. FISK & Co." Bennage jar with a few rim chips, a chip and short surface crack to proper left handle, a minor ping and short line to proper right handle, a minor chip to underside at bottom edge, and surface wear. Fisk jar with a 7/8" flake to proper right handle, two small chips and minor nicks to interior of rim, a small piece of adhered clay to top of rim, a small in-the-firing ping to proper left handle, staining to surface, some glaze spalling to shoulder and proper right handle, and a faint 5 1/2" line ascending base on front. H (of shorter) 9 3/4".
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