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THBOnly Known Important J.C. Avera Signed and Decorated 1871 Georgia Stoneware 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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(Crawford County, Georgia, 1832-1900) greenish tan lime alkaline glaze, beehive whisky jug form, inscribed at shoulder "J. MARSHALL'S JUG, MADE AND WARRANTED BY J.C. AVERA, AUG The 31st 1871.", extensively decorated including an incised primitive folky foxhunt scene of a man in a possible tweed suit holding a long gun watching two dogs in flight pursue a fox, several tiers of incised crosshatching on shoulder and around back of jar representing forest lands, impressed cross stamps in rows on either side of date, two stacked rows of cross stamps to lower body of jar, applied strap handles, collared neck with tooled flared spout, 12-1/4 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. 121, cat. no. 199, Burrison writes " Working at Jesse Long's shop, Avera made this piece for John Marshall, a wealthy landowner who loved foxhunting."
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: Brothers in Clay: The Story of Georgia Folk Pottery, John Burrison, University of Georgia Press, 1983, pg. 159, plate 92, and pg. 160, also color plate 5 in center of book, refer to Burrison's associated story After The Fox: In Pursuit of a Special Jug, pgs. 158-161
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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, restoration of handle by consignor with piece from the Jesse Bradford Long's Pottery waster dump, adhesive and enamel paints, 1/2 in. and 3/4 in. rim edge chip repairs, glaze frits and repair to rim, frits to glaze around body, some as made, shrinkage hairlines underglaze around lower body as made one 4-1/4 in., old wear around base edge
