Richard Clinton Remmy was born in Phildelphia in 1835, the second of five children. He was a descendant of Henry Remmy, a potter who immigrated to New York in 1735, but who moved to Philadelphia and established a pottery on Marshall Street, near Girad Avenue. Richard Remmy was educated in Philadelphia's public schools, and joined his father in the manufacture of Bristol-glazed stoneware. In 1859, he assumed full management of the business. Charles and William Wingender, German immigrant potters and makers of lots 257 and 258 in this sale, trained under Remmy in Philadlephia before moving to Haddonfield, New Jersey and establishing thier own pottery. By 1870, Remmy abandoned the manufacture of household stoneware and increased production of bricks, tiles and porcelain tubs. Upon Richard Remmy's death in 1904, his son Robert Henry Remmey continued the business and the factory operated until the 1920s.

This "puzzle" jug was used for beer drinking games. The object of the game was to guess which spout would work, and try to drink from the pitcher with out the beer spilling through the perforations.