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THBHarold Hewell Georgia Stoneware Face Jug
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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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- Lot Description
(Gillsville, Hall County, Georgia, 1993) runny green alkaline ash glaze, applied facial features, white kaolin eyes with cobalt pupils, broken china teeth, inscribed on base "April 24 1993, Harold Hewell, Gillsville Ga.", 9-1/2 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. 240, Burrison writes, "Although Harold's father, Maryland Hewell, is thought to have made face jugs, Harold did not learn to make them from him but had to consult his grandson, Matthew, for instruction! This is one of the few he has made."
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
Illustrated: Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in the Changing South, John Burrison, University of Georgia Press, 2000, pg. 61, cat. no. 240
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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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glaze voids and anomalies as made, grinding on base edge as made, good condition
