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American & Southern Auction | June 27, 2024

Thu, Jun 27, 2024 10:00AM EDT
Lot 675

Salomon Loy Attributed Stoneware Storage Jar

Estimate: $300 - $600

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(Alamance County, b. 1805 - d ?) salt glaze over curved form, bluish green glassy kiln drips to one side of jar, brown glaze runs at front, applied arched strapped handles at shoulders with downturned thumb impressed terminus, tapered neck, downturned flat rim, inscribed "5" under one handle, turning line impressions around lower mid and upper body, 14-3/4 in.

Provenance: From the Collection of Charlotte and L. C. Beckerdite

Note: For similar example see The Potters Eye: Art and Tradition in North Carolina Pottery, Mark Hewitt and Nancy Sweezy, pgs. 32 and 33

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From the Collection of Charlotte and L. C. Beckerdite

glaze voids and anomalies as made, impressions in exterior clay body as made, 1/4 in. and 1/2 in. exterior rim chips, 1/2 in. interior rim chip, 3 in. miniscule hairline down from rim toward one handle, glaze frits and surface abrasions, base edge wear with two small clay body chips, three pronged spider hairline on base surface