Lot #: 395
Price Realized: $1,092.50
($950 hammer, plus 15% buyer's premium)
PLEASE NOTE: This result is 11 years old, and the American ceramics market frequently changes. Additionally, small nuances of color, condition, shape, etc. can mean huge differences in price. If you're interested in having us sell a similar item for you, please contact us here.
Extremely Rare Three-Gallon Stoneware Advertising Cooler, Impressed "WHEELER'S / BERLIN BAR BITTERS / BALTIMORE," attributed to Maryland Pottery, Baltimore, MD, mid 19th century, cylindrical jug with rounded shoulder, stylish spout, and circular bunghole at base. Impressed in large bold-faced print "WHEELER'S / BERLIN BAR BITTERS / BALTIMORE" across front. Impressed advertising and bunghole highlighted in cobalt slip. This outstanding Baltimore advertising piece is one of the earliest examples of Baltimore advertising known, and one of a small number of advertising coolers from this city in existence. It is also the only example of its type. Both handles missing. Loss to side of spout. A few shallow chips to bunghole. Hairline in spout. Some in-the-firing crazing to surface.
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