Lot #: 379
Price Realized: $660.00
($550 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.
Two Four-Gallon Cobalt-Decorated Stoneware Water Coolers, Midwestern origin, circa 1880, both of similar form with open handles and circular bunghole, each decorated with a slip-trailed "4" underscored by looping lines. One with impressed faux screwheads to terminal. Both with salt glaze "turkey droppings" to surface. One with two spout chips and staining. The other with fry to cobalt, a small in-the-firing ping to bunghole, a tiny in-the-firing crack to bunghole, and two in-the-firing base chips.
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