Lot #: 482
Price Realized: $402.50
($350 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.
Four-Gallon Stoneware Water Cooler with Elaborate Cobalt Floral Decoration, Ohio origin, circa 1850, keg-form cooler with raised banding, applied lug handles, and semi-squared bung hole, the front decorated with a large tulip plant design bearing three blossoms. Cobalt highlight around bung hole. Excellent form and decoration. Provenance: Robert Hunter, Yorktown, VA. Thin 4 1/2" crack continuing 5 1/4" onto underside. Faint surface line to right of bung hole, also running halfway across top of bung hole, not visible on interior and likely in-the-firing. Tight vertical 1 1/2" surface line under bung hole, extending 3/4" onto underside, not visible on interior. 1 3/4" vertical surface line at base on reverse, continuing 3/4" onto underside, not visible on interior. 3" hairline from rim and 1/2" hairline from rim. Tiny chips to rim.
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