Lot #: 500
Price Realized: $2,280.00
($1,900 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
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Large-Sized Stoneware Chicken Waterer with Elaborate Cobalt Floral Decoration, attributed to Richard C. Remmey, Philadelphia, PA, circa 1875, domed form with stepped finial, arched tab handles, and applied hooded watering trough, brush-decorated with two tulips ascending from the trough on front along with foliate and swag decoration around the trough's opening. Additional tulip decoration to shoulder on reverse. Cobalt highlights to handle terminals. Significant restoration to reverse, extending onto front. A restored chip to proper right handle. Two chips to trough. A restored section to proper right edge of trough. H 12 1/2".
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