Three Pieces Mossy Creek Georgia Stoneware, One Piece Attributed to Wiley Meaders

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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: 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, 1875-1965) both jugs with light and dark olive green runny mottled alkaline ash glazes, Wiley Meaders attributed whiskey jug, circa 1910, incised line at shoulder, short arched strap handle from shoulder to neck of curved spout, 10-3/4 in.; large tapered ovoid jug, large arched wide strap handle, three incised lines at shoulder, incised line at neck, curved neck, flared collared rim, 17-1/2 in.; canning jar, light olive green runny mottled glaze, angled shoulder, flared rim, lid ledge, 10-1/4 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. 110, cat. no. 53, in relation to the whisky jug, Burrison writes, "This stoneware jug is typical of those used by north Georgia moonshiners until glass and metal containers became available."

  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. 72, jar pictured in photo 44, top right

• 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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• Condition
  glaze voids and anomalies as made, both jugs with quartz pebbles, surface wear and abrasions, miniscule glaze frits, small jug with base edge wear and frits, hairline across handle of large jug, jar with 6 small rim chips and other frits and wear, residue, abrasions and glaze frits to body, base edge wear