Crocker Farm – Fall 2023 Stoneware & Redware Auction
October 31st to November 10th
www.crockerfarm.com

Bidding by Internet, Phone & Mail October 31st to November 10th (Phone Bid Session on Nov. 1 1th)
Phone: (410) 472-2016
Web: www.crockerfarm.com
E-MAIL: INFO@CROCKERFARM.COM
(Right) Commeraw Masterwork. Important Stoneware Jar with Incised Floral Motifs, Stamped “COERLEARS HOOK / N. YORK,” Thomas Commeraw, Corlears Hook, Manhattan, NY, circa 1797. This recently-surfaced JAR, FEATURING A PREVIOUSLY-UNDOCUMENTED COMMERAW FLORAL MOTIF ON THE FRONT, is among the potter’s earliest and finest-decorated works known. H 12.25″
(Left) Remmey Stoneware at its Finest. Extraordinary Twenty-Gallon Stoneware Water Cooler with Profuse Incised Bird and Flowering Plant Motif, Stamped “PHILADELPHIA /AD/ MDCCCXXVIII / J K,” attributed to 3 Henry Remmey, Jr., Philadelphia, PA, 1828. Made 1 shortly after Remmey’s arrival in Philadelphia, this newly-discovered cooler, grand in size, form, and decoration, is regarded as the most ambitious work known BY THIS ILLUSTRIOUS AMERICAN POTTING FAMILY. THE ADDITION OF AN INCISED DAISY MOTIF AROUND THE SHOULDER AND OVER-THE-TOP FLOWERING BRUSHWORK ON THE REVERSE RANK THIS COOLER AMONG THE MOST EXTRAVAGANTLY-DECORATED EXAMPLES of American-made pottery known. A remarkable survivor with restoration of damage, most or all of which was INCURRED DURING THE FIRING. H 33”.