Folk art stoneware pottery ink well with a brown/orange glaze with dark brown streaks. Stepped form, the top having 3 miniature jugs, central jug with attached legs, with strap handles atop the ink reserve with holder below and "ribbon" type decoration applied around the perimeter. Additional incised decoration throughout. Back of well initialed "DM". Found […]

Group of three (3) Middle Tennessee stoneware pottery items, all with transition glazes, including a storage jar with lug handles and incised #3 (denoting capacity) on upper shoulder (13 1/2" H), one storage jar with two incised lines around upper section and lug handles (10 1/2" H), and one jug with applied extruded handle (10" […]

Group of five (5) Middle Tennessee stoneware pottery items including a chicken/bird feeder with transition glaze and finial (10 1/2" H), an unusual bird/chicken feeder with open top, tapered rim and curved body (10" H), flower pot with light tan glaze and drainage hole (6" H), grey glazed storage pot with rounded rim, incised line […]

Group of three (3) Middle Tennessee stoneware pottery items including a vase with elongated neck and olive green drip glaze (6 3/4" H), a pitcher with a sine wave incised band around the mid-section and tapered rim (9 3/4" H), and a small honey jar with tapering ovoid body and lid (10 1/2" H). 12.6 […]

Middle Tennessee stoneware pottery jar with partially illegible cobalt stenciling reading: G. GONE.. & WING… /EDGEFIELD. TENN, with cobalt line decoration to neck and base, above and below stencil. Stencil most likely indicates a retailer in Edgefield (Nashville). 9 1/2" H. Late 19th/early 20th century. Private Middle Tennessee Collection. CONDITION: Good condition with 7" L. […]

Group of three (3) Middle Tennessee stoneware pottery jugs, all with transition glazes and applied strap handles, including one with incised #2 (denoting capacity) around the upper shoulder (14" H), one with two faint incised lines around the upper shoulder (10 1/2" H) and one other measuring 12 3/4" H. All late 19th/early 20th century. […]

Washington County, Tennessee stoneware pottery jar attributed to Charles Frederick Decker (1832-1914) with cobalt multiple petal flower decoration to four sides, cobalt rings around the base of handles. Impressed "2" on top of jar rim denoting gallon capacity. 12 1/4" H x 9" dia. (at mid-section). Provenance: Estate of Barbara Gipe, Kingsport, TN. Biography (Courtesy […]

Group of three (3) Middle Tennessee stoneware pottery jugs including one large jug with grey to brown transition matte glaze body, ovoid form with extruded strap handle and raised ridge around the mid-section (17" H), one with grey/buff glaze with extruded strap handle and incised line around upper shoulder (9" H), and one with brown […]

Early Washington County, Virginia stoneware preserving jar signed and dated in script, Jesse Vestal 1879. 7 7/8" H. Note: Jesse/Jessee Vestal (born 1828 North Carolina-died 1904 Virginia) is known for his beautifully incised script on pottery. His family appears to have been in Washington Co. VA by 1833. In the 1850 census he is listed […]

Large Southern stoneware pottery pitcher, green to brown transition glaze resembling Albany slip, having naturalistic tree branch handle, applied sunflower and maple leaf decoration to sides, two incised lines around the midsection and impressed "5" to left of sunflower (denoting capacity). Found in the Huntsville, Alabama area. 15 1/4" H x 14" W. 17.3 lbs. […]