Crocker Farm, a stoneware and redware auction company based in Sparks, Md., holds three sales a year. Since their spring 2020 sale, they have sold $8 million of ceramics. Their next absentee, online format sale will be held from Friday, Nov. 5, to Friday, Nov. 19, with a callback session on Saturday, Nov. 20, on lots that reach $3,000 and over. Recently surfaced in the South, a stoneware jug with profuse incised decoration of a sailing ship with American flag, from Manhattan, N.Y., probably Crolius family, ca. 1791-92, is among the expected top lots. This masterwork from the Manhattan potting tradition features possibly the finest rendering of a sailing ship seen in American stoneware. Festooned with 20 sails and replete with incised and impressed circular details throughout, this design also depicts one of the earliest images of an American flag on an American-made ceramic object. The 14 stars on the large flag at the ships stern date this jug ca. 1791-92, after the admission of Vermont into the Union. Its craftsmanship and subject matter serve as a document in clay for the burgeoning reliance on quality, domestically-produced goods in a young America, then 15 or 16 years old. Coupling high artistic appeal with exceptionally early American history, this work is regarded among the most important examples of 18th-century pottery produced in this country. View the online catalog by visiting www.crockerfarm.com. For additional information, call 410-472-2016.