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Dec 5, 2024
(Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, circa 1880s) salt glaze to exterior, Albany slip glazed interior, cobalt decorated blossom motif to front of jar with other line decorations, cobalt "2" above decoration, small thick lug handles at shoulder, ridged neck, stamped "2" and "C.S. KLINE, HOWELLS MILLS" on flared rim, 13-1/4 in.
Provenance: From the Folklife Collection of Southern Pottery Scholar, Author and Professor of English at Georgia State University, Dr. John Burrison, Atlanta, Georgia
Note: In the catalog description from Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in a Changing South, John Burrison, University of Georgia Press, 2000, pg. 123, cat. no. 217, Burrison writes, "The stylized fruit or blossom motif is one of two designs seen on Kline's work. Supposedly trained in Ohio, he brought to Georgia a Northern approach to stoneware."
Exhibited: Previously on Loan at the Atlanta History Center for viewing in the exhibition Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in the Changing South from 1996 to 2024
From the Folklife Collection of Southern Pottery Scholar, Author and Professor of English at Georgia State University, Dr. John Burrison, Atlanta, Georgia
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