Two New York Cobalt Decorated Stoneware Crocks, Signed

The first a two gallon salt glaze stoneware crock stamped "Haxstun, Ottman & Co. / Fort Edward, NY," with free-hand bird on branch decoration, circa 1875 (11 1/2 in.) (stable hairline running from base to below bird's tail feathers, several old glaze pops); the second a crock stamped "Ottman Bro. / Fort Edward, NY," with free hand foliate design, circa 1870 (repaired hairline to one side, two shallow chips to handles).

From the Collection of the Late Joy and James Perry, Connecticut