IMPORTANT EMANUEL SUTER (ATTRIBUTED), NEW ERECTION POTTERY, ROCKINGHAM CO., SHENANDOAH VALLEY OF VIRGINIA DECORATED STONEWARE CHURN

Price Realized: $25,300.00
Sold Date: Nov 11, 2005
Lot #1

5 gallon (5 within a rectangle) capacity mark, two applied handles, deep galleried rim with inner ledge for lid, free-hand cobalt chicken decoration on front and feathers off handles on back

Item/Auction Attributes

Third quarter 19th century

Outstanding condition, tight 3″ hairline off rim and exterior only hairline off one handle terminal
18 1/4" h, 8" d rim, 9" d base

Property of the family of the late J. S. and Nan Sellers, Mauzy, VA.
Descended from Jacob Samuel Sellers to Walter Sellers, purchased by Nan Sellers at his estate auction in the 1960s, inherited by the current owners
$15,000.00
$20,000.00

Exhibited “A Great Deal of Stone & Earthen Ware”, September 7 – December 30, 2004, Harrisonburg-Rockingham Historical Society

Published Evans/Suter, p. 16, pl. 28 and p. 105, fig. 210
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