Lot of 3 Middle TN Pottery Items. 1st item – Middle Tennessee double-dip. brown to tan, glazed pottery jar with applied strap handle and lug handle, incised with "2" denoting gallon capacity. Condition – Chips to lug handle and one chip to rim. 12 1/2" H. Late 19th century. 2nd item – Middle Tennessee brown […]
Lot 234: T.W. Craven Pottery Jar, West TN
West Tennessee two handled jar, marked "T.W. Craven", other side with a free hand star mark. Crimped medial flange joining both halves of the jar. Henderson County, TN. Condition – Old hole to mid-section with emanating cracks. Tight hairline cracks to handle and rim area (stable). 22" height. The Cravens were important potters in the […]
Lot 235: Two Middle TN Stoneware Pitchers
Lot of 2 Middle Tennessee stoneware pitchers both with rounded rims and pulled handles. Both pieces of pottery are salt glazed with the larger having applied brown slip. Both pitchers in very good condition. 8" H and 11" H. Late 19th/Early 20th century.
Lot 236: Middle TN Stoneware cream pitcher & jar
Lot of 2 Middle TN pottery Stoneware Items, Cream Pitcher & Preserving Jar with Lid. 1st item – Middle Tennessee stoneware cream pitcher, grey to maroon transition in glaze, delicate form. Condition – very good condition, some roughness to rim. 6 3/4" H. 1st item – Middle Tennessee stoneware jar, preserving ovoid jar form with […]
Lot 231: East Tennessee Redware Jar, C.A. Haun
Greene County, TN slip and copper oxide decorated redware jar by Christopher Alexander Haun, 1821-1861. Marked on upper rim with the stamped letters “C A Haun ” and compass flower stamping. Condition – old chips to one handle, abrasions and expected wear to body. One hairline crack from mouth about three inches in length. 13″ […]
Lot 232: East Tennessee Stoneware Pottery
Lot of 2 East Tennessee Pottery Items. 1st item – East Tennessee stoneware pottery churn, marked "3", denoting capacity with lug handles and incised lines around upper body. Overall excellent condition with minor flea bite chips to rim. 15 1/4" H. Found in Mosheim area of East Tennessee. Late 19th century. 2nd item – East […]
Lot 226: Massachusetts Needlework Sampler, 1830, Caroline L
A Massachusetts needlework sampler, silk thread on linen, embroidered border, central basket and flowers with cross-stitched alphabets and numbers, wrought by Caroline Augusta Low, Aged 10, 1830, Andover. Verse reads:" We stand exposed to every sin/ While idle and without employ/ Industry holds our passions in/ And Keeps out all unlawful joy" Condition: Some fading […]
Lot 228: Adam and Eve Pictorial Sampler
English school, Adam and Eve needlework sampler with verse, silk on linen, signed at bottom "Elizabeth Wordingham was born/ September 10 / 1823 aged 13." Verse at top reads: "Oh may heavenly treasure find and choose the better part / Give me a humble pious mind and a meek and lowly heart." Geometric border and […]
Lot 229: Cobalt Decorated Kentucky Churn, Isaac Thomas
Early and large cobalt decorated pottery churn, stamped “I. Thomas” (Isaac Thomas, working in the area around Maysville-Lexington KY approximately 1834-1876). Eight gallon capacity mark with square cross hatched stamp surrounded by a cobalt looped border, “Kentucky 1836” in cobalt script, three cobalt decorated flowers below script. Reverse side with cobalt script, “I Thomas Manufacturer” […]
Lot 230: E. TN Stoneware Churn, Cobalt Decoration, poss. G
East Tennessee stoneware churn with free hand cobalt decoration consisting of three cobalt bands around lower rim, upper shoulder, and midsection. Wavy vertical lines, floral sprigs, cobalt flower on one side, "5" cobalt mark on other side (denoting gallon capacity). overall excellent condition, tight hairline at rim does not extend in the shoulder. Note – […]