There have been a number of incredible auction results at Crocker Farm in Sparks, Maryland this weekend, although the most surprising result (to me) is probably an eighteenth century stoneware flask attributed to the Crolius family in Manhattan that I wrote about on this website on April 25, 2022. Back then it sold at Pook & Pook in Downington, Pennsylvania for $2,394, including the buyer's premium. However, a little less than a year later that same flask just sold today at Crocker Farm for $60,000 plus the auction premium! That is a heck of an auction result!
Nonetheless, my lone purchase at Crocker Farm is what I consider to be perhaps the most attractive type of rustic tree trunk formed planter manufactured in North America in the 1800s. I purchased a colorfully glazed earthenware example that I believe was made in Ontario, Canada, which is based on the only other examples that I have seen, two nearly matching formed planters that sold in the John Wine Collection at Miller & Miller Auctions in New Hamburg, Ontario in February of 2020.
Update: After posting this article, a collector and scholar of Ontario pottery living in Canada told me that there is a fourth planter known in a museum in Ontario.
Tree Trunk Formed Rustic Planters from Ontario, Canada
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