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Dec 5, 2024
(Seagrove, Moore County, North Carolina, 1866-1923) circa 1915 to 1920, salt glaze with cobalt flourishes to underlying coggle wheel and incised wavy line decoration, applied cobalt decorated stirrup handles to either side of neck from shoulder to rim, curved neck with flared rim, 18-1/2 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. 121, cat. no. 199, Burrison writes, "A folk potters early appeal to an outside market, this vase may have been for sale at the Village Store, Juliana Busbee's New York City tearoom, before she and her husband Jacques opened the Jugtown Pottery in central North Carolina in 1921."
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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