Lot of Three: Rare Geo. P. Hamlyn / EAST LAKE POTTERY / Bridgeton, N.J. Redware Chick Waterers

July 20, 2019 Stoneware Auction

Lot #: 440

Price Realized: $767.00

($650 hammer, plus 18% buyer's premium)

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Very Rare Group of Three New Jersey Redware Chicken Waterers, George P. Hamlyn, East Lake Pottery, Bridgeton, N.J.", circa 1890, all of domed form with applied watering trough, tooled shoulder, and button-shaped finial, the two larger examples impressed with the rare maker's mark, "Geo. P. Hamlyn / EAST LAKE POTTERY / Bridgeton, N.J." The smaller example is marked "EAST LAKE POTTERY / Bridgeton, N.J." and was cleverly converted during use into a make-do birdhouse. After losing its watering trough, a piece of crossed iron was attached to the underside and a metal chain was wrapped around the finial. Relatively few signed examples from this pottery are known, and these, along with a redware batter pitcher in another lot, are the first examples that we have ever offered. Provenance: For more information on Hamyln and East Lake Pottery, see M. Lelyn Branin, The Early Makers of Handcrafted Earthenware and Stoneware in Central and Southern New Jersery, pp. 107, 128. Smallest with make-do conversion into birdhouse, missing watering trough, with crack in underside and wear to surface. One other waterer in excellent condition with a spout chip and small nicks to edge of trough. A third waterer in three shallow chips to finial, light surface wear, and some minor edge chips. H (of smallest) 7 1/8".