Cobalt-decorated Stoneware Jug with Codfish Motif

Description:

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.
Estimate $1,000-1,500

Jug is in very good condition.

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