Antiques Roadshow; Appraisal

This piece belonged to my grandmother. She had a lot of antiques but most of them were glass. And so the kids in the family didn't get to go around those very often but this one was always out on the floor. And so as I grew up this was a part of all of the parties and Christmases there. And when she sold her house the grand kids and the kids could choose different things and this is the piece that I always wanted. And so my name was on this one for a long time and when you do actually get it five years ago let me tell you a few things about this wonderful piece we cannot find any maker in Ohio it says Ohio St. where with this maker. So this is the piece that we still need to do some more research on. There are two cities in Ohio mentioned one Akron and one Alexander. And the fact that it says on the bottom 1876 Centennial makes me speculate that it might have been used in the centennial celebration in Philadelphia in 1876. The various states had exhibits and this might have been an example of an

Ohio stoneware maker its slip Cup decorated with cobalt the Cobalt was drizzled on to the stone where before it was fired and this wonderful bird is a peacock. The writing and the decoration takes up the full palette and that's what we in American folk art look for and a great piece of stoneware. This is wonderful to date 1876 and it's a little miniature jug which is a replica of the large jug. And you tell me how this handle got broke. Yeah my grandmother always said that she bumped it while she was vacuuming. I would just leave it the way it is it doesn't need any repair and it really doesn't hurt it's value. If I had this at a show I would have this priced at somewhere between 65 and eighty five thousand dollars. You know I'm not playing. I think it's an absolutely monumental piece of American stoneware early here and when I lifted it up here you said you almost had a heart attack but you didn't regret it but you were lifting it by the handles which is just an absolute no no for a small piece. I would never do that

again. I've moved a couple factors like that but I won't move it that way anymore. I am stunned. I am absolutely stunned.