One of Two Known D.E. Maynor Signed East Tennessee Stoneware Jar

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Jan 29, 2025

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As a singular figure in the world of American pottery and early textiles, Dr. Wahler was a celebrated curator, collector, and scholar. Early Southern furniture including four MESDA documented items: VA William and Mary paneled trunk, VA Chippendale Cupboard, TN inlaid cherry chest of drawers and a TN cherry high chest, many early Southern painted furniture examples, Ten Ulysses Davis folk art carvings, textiles to include a rare Asheville sampler dated 1824, quilt dated1861, rare Southern salt glaze and redware pottery examples to include TN, AL and NC. Brunk Auctions support@brunkauctions.com

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• Lot Description

  (Greene County, Tennessee, b.? d. after 1890s) salt glaze, cylindrical form, inscribed "D.E. Maynor, Potter town" on front of jar, two incised lines at neck between two applied lug handles, thick tooled flared rim, 12-3/4 in. 

  Provenance: Collection of Carole Wahler, Knoxville, Tennessee

  Note: In Tennessee Potteries, Pots and Potters, 1790s - 1950, Volume 2, by Samuel D. Smith and Stephen T. Rodgers, research states,  "The name D. E. Mayner is only known by way of two stoneware vessels in East Tennessee collections. One of these is a small crock with cursive incising that reads 'D. E. Mayner' over 'Potter Town' (Figure 3-123). The other is a tall widemouth jar with similar cursive incising: 'D. E. Mayner' over 'Potter town' (Figure 3- 124). Mayner is assumed to be one of the 1880s to 1890s employees of the M. P. Harmon stoneware pottery at 'Pottertown' in Greene County (ET site 40GN28). The absence of an 1890 census makes it difficult to identify individuals who may have worked here during the middle portion of this period. A search of Greene County records did not yield evidence for any contemporary Mayners, yet, a John Mayner is one of the people (a wagon driver) named on the back of a ca. 1894 photograph of the M. P. Harmon pottery (Figure 2-34)." The example we are offering appears to be the latter in the above research.

• Provenance

  Collection of Carole Wahler, Knoxville, Tennessee

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• Condition
  glaze and clay body anomalies as made, chips and frits to clay body and glaze, clay firing burnouts, one to handle, wear and tiny chips to interior and exterior rim edge, chipping to entire interior of jar, two handprints under glaze on opposing sides of lower body