Blue Decorated Spongeware Ironstone Bowl Excellent NR

Up for auction is this beautiful blue spongeware bowl  which is in excellent condition. There are no chips, very little crazing and no repairs.  It is likened to Spatterware inasmuch as the decorator used a spongelike instrument to dab brightly colored blue paint onto the solf paste earthenware item. This bowl which measures 8 1/2 inches from rim to rim, and 5 inches across the base, stands 3 1/4 inches high.  It has an inner ring of blue sponge markings and an outer rim around the base with similar blue sponge markings. The top rim is also scolloped and contains 38 sponge markings while the base contains 35 blue sponge markings. I have tried to photograph the manufacturers iidentification mark on the bottom of the bowl, but it is a little blurred.  I think it reads Ironstone China and the manufacturer reads, I think, Mayer Pottery Mfg. Co. The marking is very similar to several that are shown on page 15 D & E in Kovel's New Dictionary of Marks for Companies located in the Trenton, NJ area. Please    e-mail with any questions or thoughts.  Mailing costs will include insurance and will be determined once the location of the high bidder is known.  I accept Paypal and will mail as soon as I receive notice of payment.  Please hold up on payment until I can send an invoice since I would like to check with the Post Office as to costs so that the buyer does not pay one cent more than the Post Office charges me.  I have listed with NO RESERVE and only a modest opening bid. Thanks for looking and for your bids..

I have more closely examined what a viewer thought was a red stain on the inside of the bowl and visable in my photos.  I at first reported that there was no stain, it was a reflection.  Upon more close examination, I agree with the viewer that there is a light red stain that is shown in my first picture.  It is not a reflection.  It is a stain albeit a very light reddish one.  Sorry for the misrepresentation.  It was a quick and inappropriate response that I originally made.