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This is an Antique Old Sleepy Eye Indian Primitive Stoneware Butter Crock / Bowl.
This Crock is in Very Good Condition with no cracks. There is one chip on the base that looks like a manufacturing flaw rather than damage. See last two pictures.
The Crock was made between 1899 - 1906 in Sleepy Eye, Minnesota by Sleepy Eye Milling Company.
The Crock is 4" tall by 6 3/8" in diameter and weighs a heavy 3 LBS 10 OZ.
AI Says;
This piece is an antique "Old Sleepy Eye" stoneware bowl produced as advertising premium pottery for the Sleepy Eye Milling Company around the early 1900s.
Subject & Design: Features the raised relief portrait of Dakota Chief "Old Sleepy Eye" in a feather war bonnet, flanked by relief tepees and crossed peace pipes/tomahawks, with "OLD SLEEPY EYE" embossed below the portrait.
Decoration: Salt-glazed gray stoneware with cobalt blue highlights and a decorative zig-zag/beaded border band around the upper rim.
Manufacturer: Manufactured primarily by Weir Pottery Company or Western Stoneware Company in Monmouth, Illinois, between 1903 and 1910.
Function: Issued in multiple size variations, these bowls served as mixing or serving bowls distributed as promotional premiums for Sleepy Eye Flour.
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