NEW YORK DECORATED STONEWARE CROCKS, LOT OF TWO, salt-glazed, each of cylindrical wide-mouth form with flat-top rounded rim and applied arched handles, Albany-slip glazed interior, comprising a "5" gallon capacity mark example and a "3" gallon capacity mark example stamped "NEW YORK / STONEWARE CO." Each with slip-trailed cobalt decorations including one featuring a chicken pecking corn and one depicting a bird on a branch. New York Stoneware Company, Fort Edward, NY; chicken example probably Brady & Ryan, Ellenville, NY. Circa 1880. 13 1/2" HOA.
Provenance: From a Virginia private collection.
Chicken example having excellent visual condition having some areas of professional restoration; remaining example also having restoration.