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November 22, 2024: Premier Americana - Day Two: Marzorini Collection

Fri, Nov 22, 2024 09:00AM EST
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  • Stoneware/Redware
Lot 1361

WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA "EAGLE POTTERY" AND NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE MERCHANT'S STENCILED STONEWARE MONUMENTAL JAR

Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000
Starting Bid
$1,500

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$0 $10
$200 $25
$500 $50
$1,000 $100
$3,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$30,000 $2,500
$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000

WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA "EAGLE POTTERY" AND NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE MERCHANT'S STENCILED STONEWARE MONUMENTAL JAR, salt-glazed, designated twenty-gallon capacity, slight ovoid form with flat-top rounded rim, beaded neck, large applied arched handles, and Albany-slip glazed interior. Stenciled cobalt spread-wing eagle grasping ribbon with "EAGLE / POTTERY", having "WILLIAM COMPTON / NASHVILLE, / TENN." and "20" capacity below, additional decorative floral stencils, brushed cobalt stripes below rim and above foot and a wavy line below eagle, additional cobalt to handle terminals. James Hamilton & Co., Greensboro, PA. Circa 1870. 24" H, 13 3/8" D rim.
Literature: Eagle Pottery stencil parallels Schaltenbrand - Big Ware Turners: The History and Manufacture of Pennsylvania Stoneware, p. 156, fig. top.
Catalogue Note: According to Schaltenbrand, Hamilton & Co. in Greensboro, PA also worked under the name of "Eagle Pottery" during the 1870s. The pottery manufactured and stenciled this jar for William Compton, a grocer located in Nashville, TN. Compton was born in 1833 and was recorded as being a grocer in the 1870, 1880, 1900, and 1910 census records. He died in 1913 at the age of 81 and is buried in historic Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville.

Condition

Excellent condition, having a rim chip, a moderate chip to end of one handle, and a couple tight hairlines to back base, some dark brown residue to base edge that would probably come off with some scrubbing. 

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From the Dr. Donald Ramsey estate collection, Farragut, TN.