Item 13125
 
Coming to you from Doc's Crocks is this wonderful 2 Gallon Ovoid Jar stamped "Higgins & Co., Cleveland, O."
 
As far as we know, the Higgins Company was a distributor of stoneware made in the Portage/Summit area of Ohio by makers like H. Purdy and I.M. Mead whose pottery so closely resembles pottery marked Higgins.  The Higgins Company was in operation at least from 1848-1851 (F. Robert Treichler, A History of Northeast Ohio Stoneware, p. 88). 
 
This beauty features an Early Ovoid Form, Tall Rim, Tooled Shoulder, Applied Handles with Cobalt Accent on the Front, Capacity Number and Advertising Stamped on the Shoulder with Cobalt Wash, and a Brushed Cobalt Tulip Decoration.  Measures 10 3/4" tall and 8 1/2" wide across the top. 
 
Very Good Condition.  A series of 1/4" or so chips inside the outside the rim in the back, and a 1/2" chip on the base.  No hairlines, cracks, stains, or restoration.  Mottled glaze in the making. 
 
Ships double-boxed, insured, and FREE
 
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