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Summary: Cobalt images on antique crocks can be spotted in a variety of ways, and this free diy collectors video from an antiques dealer collection expert will show you how.
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About the Expert
Sue Shea Sue Shea has been dealing in antiques since 1979, and has her own shop, Shea Antiques, located in Shelburne Falls, MA. Her passion is early American 18th & 19... read more
So this is a few examples of just the florals and now I want to show you a few crocks that can get very pricey, but you’ll see, this is pretty common, its called a pecking chicken. Its in a three gallon and it’s a New York crock, and see, you see the chicken bending over picking up its little bits of food and with it’s little flowing, flow cobalt on the bottom. And that’s a pretty expensive crock, and when you get into more of these types of crocks, the money is actually, its going to increase and the value of the crock is going to increase. Here’s another crock I’m going to show you, this is a bird on a leaf, another common, but a highly decorative crock. You’ll see these in forms of other animals, in deer, and dogs and other types of birds, parrots, and those crocks can be very, very expensive and so this is just another example of another bird decoration that I can show you. Let’s take a look down on the open ovoids, which is a simple design, but really a nice blue, cobalt blue design, just a slip, no, um, no markings at all. Can be probably attributed to somewhere in New York, or New England, very nice ovoid shape to it, and here’s another, very similar to in shape. The clay is a little bit lighter, you can see it has a floral design to it, and this is a West Troy, New York crock. Very pretty crock, not a lot of cobalt to it. And here you find another Bennington, very simple, same as we started to show you in the very beginning, simple cobalt, a Norton Bennington Vermont crock. Then we have a couple more here, this is one from Ashfield, this is a two-gallon with a stylized floral, and then the, one of the more expensive ones you’ll see here, is this script signed, S.D. Kellogg, Whatily crock. So those are some of the examples of cobalt you can find in crocks and there is a lot more out there, this is just a small sampling.