Fine attrib. Henry Harrison Remmey, Philadelphia Three-Gallon Water Cooler w/ Elaborate Decoration

Fall 2026 Stoneware Auction

Lot #: 333

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Fine Three-Gallon Stoneware Water Cooler with Elaborate Cobalt Floral Decoration, attributed to Henry Harrison Remmey, Philadelphia, PA, circa 1850, cylindrical cooler with footed base, tooled shoulder, squared rim, and extruded lug handles, the base with applied circular bunghole; brush-decorated on the front with a lavish, triple-stemmed daisy plant ascending the front, the bunghole edged in cobalt and decorated with a cross motif. Reverse decorated with two-stemmed daisy plant. Swag decoration to shoulder and below each handle. Cobalt highlights to handle terminals. Produced somewhat earlier than most Philadelphia water cooler known, this work features superb color and decoration, and additionally lacks an Albany slip coating on the interior, a treatment more typical of the work of Remmey's son, Richard Clinton Remmey. Excellent condition with only minor flaws: some fairly innocuous, in-the-firing contact marks to surface, two small rim chips, and two minor in-the-firing chips to bunghole, and some faint surface lines to underside, not visible on interior. H 13 1/2".



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