Small-Sized Stoneware Chick Waterer att. Richard Remmey, Philadelphia, PA
July 20, 2019 Stoneware Auction
Lot #: 25
Price Realized: $2,360.00
($2,000 hammer, plus 18% buyer's premium)
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Scarce Small-Sized Stoneware Chicken Waterer with Cobalt Floral Decoration, attributed to Richard C. Remmey, Philadelphia, PA, circa 1885, cylindrical form with button-shaped finial and applied watering trough, decorated around the shoulder with two sweeping floral motifs. Cobalt leaf decoration above trough. Cobalt swag decoration surrounding opening. Cobalt highlight to finial. This example includes an unusual triangular shape to the applied watering trough. This waterer survives in rarely-found excellent, essentially as-made condition with some fry to cobalt. Most examples of this form have damage to the opening and/or finial. H 7 1/2".
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(Our next auction takes place March 21, 2020.)
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