Water Cooler

This water cooler was made of a durable, leak-proof pottery called stoneware, shaped on a potter's wheel. The orange-peel-like outer glaze was created when the potter threw handfuls of common rock salt into a white-hot kiln during the piece's firing. Salt-glazed stoneware was often decorated with cobalt oxide (blue) designs. This cooler also has applied branch-like lug handles, oak leaves, acorns, and interlocking links.