Lot #: 299
Price Realized: $840.00
($700 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
PLEASE NOTE: This result is 4 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 Ten-Gallon Stoneware Water Cooler with Cobalt Trumpet Flower Decoration, Uniontown, PA origin, circa 1865, large-sized, semi-ovoid jug form with tooled shoulder and extruded handles, the base with circular bunghole featuring canted corners. Decorated at the shoulder with a distinctive Uniontown trumpet flower motif. This design features a stem bearing three hanging trumpet flowers, embellished with circular cobalt details to the petals' tips, as well as three upswept flowers with differently-styled, flared petals. The reverse is decorated with a faint cobalt design. The shoulder is impressed on both sides with a ten-gallon capacity mark, closely-related to that found on Thompson family stoneware of Morgantown, WV, further indicating a connection between these two potting schools. This vessel is the first water cooler that we have seen produced in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. One handle crudely restored. Restored bunghole. A large, mostly glazed-over chip to spout. A short crack on underside, continuing approximately 1/2" onto front below bunghole. Some exfoliation to underside. H 24".
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