A Cobalt Blue Decorated Salt-Glazed Stoneware Crock, 19th Century

of cylindrical form with protruding rim and shaped ears with impressed mark J. NORTON & CO. BENNINGTON, VT. 2, decorated in rich colbalt blue, folky depiction of a schoolhouse with a flag on top, two trees and fence in the foreground; some cracks.

Stephen Score, Essex, Massachusetts;
Sotheby's, New York, American Folk Art and Furniture formerly in the Collection of Daphne Farago, sold for the Benefit of the Rhode Island School of Design, February 2, 1991, lot 204

Carol Sanderson and Christopher Monkhouse, Americana from the Daphne Farago Collection, 1985, p. 57, fig. 47

cracks on bottom; hairline cracks; chip at base
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