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Based in Asheville, North Carolina, Brunk Auctions has been conducting sales of fine and decorative arts for over 30 years. Auctions are held in our North Carolina sale room but attracts a global audience. Founded by Robert Brunk in 1983, the auctions became well known for their integrity and profes...Read more
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About Auction
LiveDec 5, 2024
Featuring items from the Folklife Collection of Southern Pottery Scholar, Author and Professor of English at Georgia State University, Dr. John Burrison, Atlanta, Georgia: to include early Southern pottery with Edgefield, Georgia and Alabama examples as well as a Lanier Meaders face jug; Southern furniture to include four sugar chests, Kentucky sideboard, early long guns with Southern examples, Chinese export to include three Charles Manigault examples, fine art work by Will Henry Stevens, Carl Kraft and Alice R. Huger Smith and others, silver to include Tiffany and aesthetic movement examples Brunk Auctions support@brunkauctions.com
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Cheaver Meaders Sr, Cleveland, White County, Georgia, 1920s, kiln brick, handmade, 7-3/4 x 7-1/2 in. overall; Ledbetter family, McMinn County, T.N., circa 1800s, brick, handmade, tag attached to brick notes “from the chimney of the last house occupied in McMinn Co. Tennessee by the family of Isaac Ledbetter prior to their migration to Illinois in 1883. This type of brick was made from local clay, hand-packed into wooden forms in which wet sand had been sprinkled. The depression on one face allowed for a tight joint when the bricks were laid up with clay instead of mortar. Donated by Mr and Mrs Harry Atkinson, Atlanta”, 8 x 3 x 3-3/4 in. overall; William Thomas Belah Gordy, Alvaton, Merriweather County, Georgia, circa 1920s, potter’s stamp, fired clay, reads “WTB GORDY ALVATON GA”, 3-1/4 x 1-1/4 x 1 in. overall
Note: In the catalog description from Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in a Changing South, John Burrison, University of Georgia Press, 2000, pg. 117, cat. no. 142, Burrison writes “Made in a hand-carved mold, this stamp was used to mark wares of the Gordy shop, where a number of hired potters worked.”;Cheever Meaders, Mossy Creek, White County, Georgia, circa 1960, “Setters,” or stilts, wheel-thrown clay, 5 x 4-1/2 in. overall (largest)
Note: In the catalog description from Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in a Changing South, John Burrison, University of Georgia Press, 2000, pg. 117, cat. no. 145, Burrison writes “Cheever made such “setters” in the shape of hollow truncated cones to keep decorated wares—especially those of his wife, Arie—off the sandy kiln floor.”;Shepherd Pottery, Sligh’s Mill, Paulding County, Georgia, early 1900s, tripod stilt or kiln furniture, wheel-thrown clay; pot lifters, hand-forged iron, hinged calipers, 2-3 gallon pot lifters
Note: In the catalog description from Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in a Changing South, John Burrison, University of Georgia Press, 2000, pg. 117, cat. no. 145, Burrison writes “Used by Horace Rogers at Meansville, Pike County, Georgia, Cheaver Meaders at Mossy Creek, White County, Georgia, and Maryland Hewell at Gillsville, Hall County, Georgia, all early 1900s.”;
Cheever Meaders, Mossy Creek, White County, Georgia, 1940s, pot lifters, yellow pine and leather, half-one gallon lifters; Washington Becham, Crawford, Oglethorpe County, Georgia, late 1800s, kiln furniture, wheel-turned clay, glaze, broken section of wheel-turned pot with glaze remnants and attached fired clay; Higdon, Jackson County, Alabama, kiln furniture, unglazed clay, two unglazed curved spacers or stackers
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
Provenance: 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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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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kiln brick has losses, cracks, glaze remnants, and unglazed clay attached; losses to handmade brick, as well as cracks; wear to potter's stamp; wear consistent with age and use to setters and stilts; pot lifters have residual clay, pitting and wear to iron, loss to leather consistent with age and use; kiln furniture with glaze and clay remnants, condition consistent with age and use
