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Lot 6010
Edgefield District, SC, Four Gallon Storage Jar, Attributed Dave the Potter
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Pottersville, 1840s, semi-ovoid form having a streaky greenish brown alkaline glaze, marked with signage used by Dave, (4) four punctates indicate gallons and a horseshoe incised mark just above the base rim along with several finger prints.

15 1/2 in.

From the Collection of the late Bragg Cox, Cary, North Carolina

Quote from Ceramics in America 2006: 'In addition to the capacity punctates and the double slash mark and horseshoe markings noted earlier, an X mark____and three slashes are used".

Scrapes to the upper rim; base chips and general roughness; several quarter size kiln drips; exterior horizontal separation of the clay; small upper rim chip.