Stoneware cooler
Stoneware cooler
- Description
- Thompson Harrington took over management of Nathan Clark’s Lyons, New York stoneware manufactory in 1852 when Clark left to establish new potteries elsewhere in western New York. Located along the Erie Canal, the Lyons pottery flourished under Harrington and subsequent ownership until it closed in 1902.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- cooler
- date made
- 1852-1872
- maker
- Harrington, Thompson
- place made
- United States: New York, Lyons
- Physical Description
- ceramic, stoneware, coarse (overall material)
- cork (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 48.9 cm x 28 cm; 19 1/4 in x 11 1/32 in
- ID Number
- 1977.0803.81
- accession number
- 1977.0803
- catalog number
- 1977.0803.81
- Credit Line
- John Paul Remensnyder
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Ceramics and Glass
- Food
- Industry & Manufacturing
- New York Stoneware
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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