$2,489
Cobalt-decorated Stoneware Jug with Codfish Motif, Jonathan Fenton, Boston, 1794-96, half-gallon ovoid form with incised lines at neck and shoulder, decorated with an incised codfish filled with cobalt blue, ht. 9 5/8 in. Literature: Stoneware with similar decoration attributed to Jonathan Fenton is discussed and illustrated in Decorated Stoneware Pottery of North America , by Donald Blake Webster, published by Charles E. Tuttle Company, Inc., Rutland, Vermont, and Tokyo, Japan, 1971, on p. 137; and in The Magazine Antiques , in an article titled "New light on Boston stoneware and Frederick Carpenter," by Lura Woodside Watkins, June 1972, pp. 1054-55. Jug is in very good condition.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-08-12
