Cooler, Water

Object number2007.57.48

Date1850-1870

Possible OriginPA

Mediumstoneware clay, cobalt slip, alkaline glaze

Credit LineGift of Bernard Vavrek and Joanne Vavrek

DescriptionHandled water-cooler jug, four-gallon capacity: light-gray stoneware body, with heavy, glossy, salt glaze; bulbous form, thick, heavy, walls, two large pulled handles at top, merging with a neck ring at the mouth of the jug; bung-hole at the base has a disc-shaped bolster or flange, and central cavity, to fit a dispensing tap or faucet; face of jug has free-hand cobalt-slip decoration, showing a large, double-bloomed upright flower, and a cursive numeral above; glaze exhibits considerable pebbling with extensive brown speckling in the surface.Dimensions16.5 x 10 in. (41.9 x 25.4 cm)
MarksFree-hand cobalt-slip cursive numeral "4".
Historical NotesThis portable water cooler jug is described by the donor as "likely a Beaver County piece." Part of a collection of stoneware from local manufacturers in the Western Pennsylvania region.

Collector Bernard Vavrek

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