Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2308Location: BostonDate / Time: February 19, 2006 11:00AM
Description:
Floral Decorated Stoneware Jar, "L. NORTON & SON," Bennington, Vermont, late 19th century, two-gallon ovoid wide-mouth jar with applied lug handles, incised line about the shoulder, decorated with a brown glazed stylized flower, Albany slip-glazed interior, impressed maker's mark, (hairlines),ht. 11 1/8 in.
Estimate $200-300
Probably Luman Preston Norton and son Julius.
2 in. hairline coming down from rim at center of one handle, a few flakes and small hairlines around just above base edge.