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Water server with lid

The Hall China Company (East Liverpool, Ohio, active 1903 to the present)
Retailed by: Montgomery Ward & Co.
about 1940–45
Object Place: East Liverpool, Ohio

Medium/Technique Stoneware with "Delphinum" blue glaze
Dimensions 23.2 x 11.5 x 20 cm (9 1/8 x 4 1/2 x 7 7/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Barbara McLean Ward and Gerald W. R. Ward
Accession Number2002.676a-b
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsCeramicsPotteryStoneware

Catalogue Raisonné deco
DescriptionRefrigerator water server or pitcher in delphinium blue, standing on oval foot with curved body arching toward spout opposite loop handle, with separate V-shape lid.
Marks Transfer print on bottom, faint in some areas: " MADE EXCLUSIVELY FOR / Montgomery Ward & Co. / BY / The Hall China Co. / MADE IN U.S.A. / 5118"
ProvenanceEarly history unknown; purchased by donors on eBay, 2002, from a dealer in Nashville, Tennessee.
CopyrightReproduced with permission.