POSTPONED Crocker Stoneware & Redware Auction
March 21, 2020 • 10 AM
15900 York Road • Sparks, MD 21152
Preview: March 20 • 1 pm -6 pm &
March 21 • 8 am – end of sale
OVER 400 LOTS of Antique American Stoneware
& Redware incl. Museum-Quality Examples

Featuring: The Broadway Water Cooler American Stoneware at its Finest Unparalleled in artistry, this work is regarded as the finest example of American salt-glazed stoneware to come to auction since the famous “Elizabeth Crane / 1811” punch bowl sold in 1978. Superlatives fail to describe this newly-discovered work of ceramic art, which ranks among the greatest examples of 19th century American utilitarian pottery in existence.  
Incomparable Seven-Gallon Stoneware Water Cooler with Exuberant Incised and Impressed Decoration of New York City’s Broadway, Stamped Twice “W.H. FARRAR & CO . / GED – DE S, N.Y.,” Dated 1846. Depicting a Broadway street scene during the Great National Jubilee of the Order of the Sons of Temperance, this cooler’s extravagant decoration is unprecedented in 19th century American ceramic production. The design illustrates the national headquarters of the organization, located at 315 Broadway and marked “GRAND LODGE / CIT Y NY,” beside a townhouse and a fire alarm bell tower with a female figure alighting a landing to ring the bell. (Period accounts note that the morning of the Jubilee—held June 9, 1846–was marked by a prominent ringing of bells.) The distinctive dome and cupola of New York Hospital, located at 319 Broadway and a key New York landmark of the time, are visible behind the Grand Lodge. Another local landmark, the Canal Street Bridge, appears below the female figure, along with the three degrees of membership in the society, “Love Purity & Fidelity,” inscribed above. The arch of the bridge covers the inscription, “Look not upon the wine,” taken from Proverbs 23:31 and referencing the fraternal organization’s rejection of alcoholic drink. An intricately patterned design of Broadway’s cobblestone street forms a base for the architectural designs above. Provenance: A completely fresh-to-the-market, recently discovered work. Family history indicates this cooler was used during the 19th century to serve ice water at the Hanchett Inn of Ellisburg, Jefferson County, NY. H 26.”
 (410) 472-2016 • www.crockerfarm.com • info@crockerfarm.com
Full-Color Catalog
$37.35 each
(includes shipping)
Please mail check to:
Crocker Farm, Inc.
15900 York Rd.
Sparks, MD 21152
Credit Card Orders at
www.crockerfarm.com.
Visit www.crockerfarm.com for more information.