Crocker Farm Fall Stoneware & Redware Auction Online
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November 5th to 19th
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(Callbacks on November 20th)

Featuring OVER 400 LOT S of Exceptional Stoneware & Redware
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(Right) Highly Important Alkaline-Glazed Stoneware Jug, Incised “Lm says this handle will crack,” Signed and Dated “Dave /June 28. 1854,” David Drake at Lewis Miles’ Stony Bluff Manufactory, Edgefield District, SC, 1854. This inscription is regarded as one of Dave’s most powerful and subversive incised quotations. H 13 1/4”. ($300,000-$500,000)
(Left) Exceptional Stoneware Jug w/ Elaborate Impress ed Drape-and-Tassel Motif, Stamped “COMMERAW S STONEWARE N. YORK COR LEARS HOOK,” Thomas Commeraw, Manhattan, NY , circa 1800. This jug is regarded as the greatest surviving example of the potter’s work. H 15”. ($20,000 – $40,000)
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(Left) Outstanding Salt-Glazed Stoneware Temp erance Jug with App lied Figural Decoration and Incised Image of Anna Pottery, Anna, IL , circa 1880. One of the finest
examples of Kirkpatrick Brothers stoneware that we have ever offered, a work that seamlessly melds the utilitarian stoneware tradition with the rising American Art Pottery Movement of the late 19th century. H 10 1/2”. ($20,000 – $40,000)
(Right) Exceedingly Rare and Important Stoneware Jug with Profuse Incised Decoration of a Sailing Ship with American Flag, Manhattan, NY origin, probably Crolius Family, 1791-1792. This recently-surfaced masterwork from the Manhattan potting tradition features possibly the finest rendering of a sailing ship seen in American stoneware. Festooned with twenty sails and replete with incised and impress ed circular details throughout, this design also depicts one of the earliest images of an American flag on an American-made ceramic object. H 14”. ($50,000 – $80,000)
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