Item 9816
 
Coming to you from Doc's Crocks is this highly decorated 2 Gallon Stoneware Cake Crock with Matching Lid. 
 
It is easy to attribute to Richard Remmey who ran the family pottery in Philadelphia from the 1860's until the turn of the century (Phil Shaltenbrand, Big Ware Turners, pp. 8-10).
 
Circa 1860, this beauty features a Squared Rim, Tooled Shoulder, Applied Grooved Handles, and Two Brushed Cobalt Tulips on Each Side.  Additional cobalt under each handle.   The cobalt is rich and shiny.  The matching lid repeats the leaf motif five times around with additional cobalt around the knob.  The cobalt on the lid is equally rich and shiny.  The base measures 5 3/4" tall and 10 1/2" wide across the top.  
 
Excellent Condition.  Two chips inside the rim (1/2" and 1"), four chips outside the rim (1/4" to 1/2"), and a minor nibble at the base.  That's it!  No hairlines, cracks, stains, or restoration.  The lid has a 1 1/4" chip on the underside at the edge and about 10 small chips on the outside of the seating ring oj the underside.  No hairlines, cracks, stains, or restoration. 
 
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