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THBRare and Important Lanier Meaders Devil Jack-O-Lantern Face Jug
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Asheville, NC 28802
United States
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: includes early Southern Pottery from Edgefield, Georgia, Alabama, Lanier Meaders face jug, folk art, textiles, baskets and handmade tools; 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 by Will Henry Stevens, Carl Krafft 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
(Mossy Creek, White County, Georgia, 1917-1998) 1971, jug form, runny olive green alkaline ash glaze, kaolin runs down from eye sockets to protruding lips around mouth, inset rock teeth, applied downturned horns, large applied ears with holes through eardrum, circular hole in back, straight spout, applied strap handle, inscribed "Lanier Meaders" on base, 9-3/4 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. 127, cat. no. 264, Burrison writes, "Lanier only made a few of these special jack-o-lanterns, with white clay melted form the eye sockets. He explained the devil inspiration this way: 'That's the way I was feeling that day!'"
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, color plate 11, and pg. 272, and Ceramics in America, 2006, edited by Rob Hunter, Fluid Vessel: Journey of the Jug, John Burrison, pg. 115, figure 41
- 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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glaze voids and anomalies as made, great condition
