Rare "M. Kate Manners / Fine Butter" Crock, attrib. Fulper, Flemington, New Jersey

Spring 2024 Stoneware Auction

Lot #: 81

Price Realized: $1,200.00

($1,000 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)

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Rare Four-Gallon Cobalt-Decorated Stoneware Script Butter Crock, attributed to the Fulper Pottery, Flemington, NJ, late 19th century, cylindrical crock with tooled shoulder, applied lug handles, and semi-squared rim, featuring the slip-trailed cobalt advertising, "M. Kate Manners, / Fine Butter,." Reverse decorated with a slip-trailed stylized floral motif. Manners operated a grocery business in Wertsville, New Jersey before moving to Ringoes, New Jersey in 1911. This crock is noteworthy for its subject matter, size, form, and inclusion of decoration on the reverse, all lesser-seen in Fulper Pottery script stoneware. An approximately 5 1/4" x 3 1/2" faint X-shaped line to lower proper left side of crock's front. A 6 1/2" thin diagonal Y-shaped crack to proper left side of crock's reverse. Some tiny scattered flakes to base area. A small in-the-firing iron ping at rim and below advertising. A few extremely minor rim nicks. Areas of light staining. H 10 7/8".




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