Crocker Farm Antique American Stoneware & Redware.
Bidding Begins: August 7, 2020
Bidding Ends: August 21, 2020
OVER 400 LOTS
Auction Preview: Call for Appt.
15900 York Rd. Sparks, MD 21152
isit www.crockerfarm.com for information.

Our Summer 2020 auction will take place in the same
online/absentee format as our Spring 2020 auction.
All bids taken by internet, phone, and mail 8/7 to
8/21. Call back bidding beginning 8/22 on lots $2,000
or more. Complete rules available online or by phone.
Featuring Extremely Rare and Important Four-Gallon Double-Handled Stoneware Jug with Alkaline Glaze, Incised “Lm / August 31. 1852 / Dave,” David Drake at Lewis Miles’s Stony Bluff Manufactory, Horse Creek Valley, Edgefield District, SC, 1852. Featuring an expressive two-handled form, high-gloss green glaze, and large signature, this work is among the finest Dave stoneware pieces to come to auction in the past decade. The reverse includes Dave’s classic horseshoe-and-slash marking along with four punctates, indicating four gallons. The glaze includes heavy drips to the shoulder, suggesting this piece was doubly-dipped or that additional glaze was poured over the top of the jug after it was coated. This vessel exudes character, featuring a highly-bulbous shape with an outstanding 42” circumference around the midsection. Our Summer 2020 auction offers a rare opportunity to acquire an example of signed Dave stoneware in an elusive and highly-sculptural form, surviving in exemplary condition.
Literature: Illustrated in Goldberg and Witkowski, “Beneath His Magic Touch: The Dated Vessels of the African-American Enslaved Potter Dave,” Ceramics in America 2006, fig. 31. H 16”
(410) 472-2016
info@crockerfarm.com