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THBScarce and Important Edgefield South Carolina Stoneware 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
Edgefield District, South Carolina, circa 1860s, diminutive tapered ovoid jug form, green and dark brown speckled alkaline glaze, inset pierced kaolin eyes, inset impressed kaolin teeth, applied facial features including comma form ears with tragi, arching eyebrows and pinched nose, collared spout, applied strap handle, attributed to an enslaved African American craftsman, likely associated with the Thomas Davies's Palmetto Firebrick Works in Bath, Aiken County, S.C., 4-3/4 in.
Provenance: From the Folklife Collection of Southern Pottery Scholar, Author and Professor of English at Georgia State University, Dr. John Burrison, Atlanta, Georgia, purchased by the consignor from Jimmy Allen in 1983, Mr. Allen purchased it from a dealer at the Elco's antiques market around the same time.
Note: In the catalog description from Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in a Changing South, John Burrison, University of Georgia Press, 2000, pg. 120, cat. no. 184, Burrison writes, "Ceramics historian Edwin Atlee Barber wrote of these early southern face vessels in 1909. 'The modelling reveals a trace of aboriginal art as formerly practised by the ancestors of the makers of in the Dark Continent.' "Spirit Pots" in human form were kept at ancestral shrines in Nigeria and Cameroon, but English, German, southeastern Indian and (as early as 1840) white Edgefield potters also made anthropomorphic wares, and African connections remain to be established. The meaning and use of the slave-made examples are unknown, but the angry faces with their bared kaolin teeth suggest protest against enslavement."
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 a Changing South, John Burrison, University of Georgia Press, 2000, pg. 57, description on pg. 120, cat. no. 184
- Provenance
From the Folklife Collection of Southern Pottery Scholar, Author and Professor of English at Georgia State University, Dr. John Burrison, Atlanta, Georgia, purchased by the consignor from Jimmy Allen in 1983, Mr. Allen purchased it from a dealer at the Elco's antiques market around the same time.
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glaze voids and anomalies as made, small 1/8 in. glaze frit to rim, small 1/4 in. glaze frit to rim, small 1/4 in. glaze frit to front of right ear, miniscule glaze frit to back of right ear, shrinkage separation to back of right ear as made, shrinkage hairlines in teeth as made, shrinkage separation to left outer corner of eye as made, other evidence of shrinkage around eyes as made, otherwise good condition
