Stoneware Brings in Amazing Prices
Stoneware jar, cobalt blue bird-on-branch decoration, oval, tooled shoulder, stepped rim and applied lug handles, stamped "Cowden & Wilcox / Harrisburg, Pa.," c.1865, 3 gallon, $2,880.
American stoneware is a popular folk art collectible even though it was everyday ware. It was fired at a high temperature so it could be used for crocks, churns, jugs and jars. A recent Crocker Farm auction in Maryland had 382 lots of stoneware and redware. An extraordinary $480,000 was paid for an 1846 7-gallon […]