Six Pieces of Barrow County Georgia Stoneware And Stamped W.R. Addington Pitcher

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American & Southern | December 5, 2024

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Dec 5, 2024

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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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• Lot Description

  (Addington, Barrow, Hall, Banks and Jackson Counties, Georgia, b.1849 - a.1900) circa 1870-1890, Albany slip glazed pitcher and salt glaze over Albany slip glazed jar, jar with incised line at neck, stamped "W.R. ADDINGTON, MAYSVILLE, G.A.", 9-3/4 in. and 9 in.; salt glaze over Albany slip glazed churn, three incised lines between squared applied lug handles, flared rim, likely Barrow County, circa 1880, 17-3/4 in.; salt glazed milk pan, tapered angled walls, pulled spout, 5-3/4 x 13-1/4 in.; poultry feeder, elongated opening to lower side, broken knob finial, 9-1/4 in.; lidded kraut, down angled rim, recessed knob on lid, four incised lines at shoulder possibly indicating capacity, 14-1/4 in., some unsigned pieces possibly attributed to W.R. Addington

  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. 124, cat. nos, 225-227 Burrison writes, "As trade resumed with the North after the Civil War and Albany slip became available by rail, Barrow County potteries began to combine it with salt glaze for a distinctive double coating, The Pennsylvania German influenced southern upland tradition of making sauerkraut prompted north Georgia potters to produce large cylindrical jars for the purpose". For the Addington pitcher, cat. no. 228, Burrison writes, "Trained in Barrow County, Addington relocated to Northern Jackson County near Gillsville, using the closest post office in his county, Maysville, on his stamp. he was the first Barrow potter to move to Gillsville."

  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, churn pg. 218, plate 116A, pitcher and jar pg. 226, plate 118

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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, surface wear, minor abrasions, kiln drips, base edge wear and chips, pitcher with heavy rim wear, 1 inch rim loss, heavy surface wear throughout, jar with 1-1/2 in. rim loss, surface abrasions, large firing anomaly to lower body of jar, evident in interior with firing folds and separations, churn with 1 in. rim loss and repair, chips and abrasions to body of churn, quartz pebbles in interior walls, one with blow out, jug with frits to handle, surface frits and abrasions, 9 in. indention around lower body as made, debris interior, milk pan with rim wear, various chips around rim, one chip in interior, 14 in. crack running down wall and across base, another glued thin hairline on the other wall from shoulder to base visible under black light, other chips to clay body on exterior, exterior of wall with crack has green yellow surface, other small associated hairlines, poultry feeder with surface abrasions, losses to finial, kraut jar with 3-1/2 in. rim loss on lid with other smaller chips, jars rim with two 1-1/2 in. losses and other smaller interior rim chips, abrasions chips and residue to the body, spider hairline 4 in. up from base edge with other associated hairlines on base, residue around base edge, residue illuminates under black light