Water cooler

1850–59

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 704

During the 1850s, Julius and Edward Norton, like their upstate New York competitors, produced stoneware with designs in cobalt blue slip. Typical of the motifs found on their wares are birds, flowers, stags, dogs, and eagles, executed with little regard to relative scale.

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Title: Water cooler
Maker: Julius and Edward Norton (active 1850–59)
Date: 1850–59
Geography: Made in Bennington, Vermont, United States
Culture: American
Medium: Stoneware
Dimensions: H. 13 in. (33 cm); Diam. 10 in. (25.4 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Arthur F. and Esther M. Goldberg, 1985
Object Number: 1985.344
Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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