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THBThree Pieces of W.T.B. Gordy, and E.L. Stork Georgia Pottery
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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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(W.T.B Gordy, Fayette County, Aberdeen area, Merriweather County, Alvaton area, Greenville area, Georgia, 1877-1955) buggy jug and pitcher, circa 1920s, Albany slip glazes, jug stamped "WTB GORDY ALVATON GA" and inscribed "2-1/2" to lower body, two bands of combed triple wavy line decoration at shoulder, strap handle from shoulder to neck of spout, 9 x 9-1/2 in.; pitcher stamped on front "WTB GORDY" above incised line, footed base, arched strap handle, flared rim, pulled spout, 10 in.: (E.L. Stork, Columbia SC, Merriweather, Cherokee, Coweeta, Washington, and Crawford Counties, GA, 1868 - 1925) circa 1909 - 1920, Albany slip, curved pitcher form, angled strap handle, pulled spout, stamped "E.L. STORK, ORANGE, GA" at shoulder, 10 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. 122, cat. no. 210, Burrison writes, "With it's low center of gravity, the squat form was designed to prevent tipping over when placed on the floor of a buggy. A jug this large (marked two and one half gallons) may have been made as a hot water foot warmer. The maker was trained at Jugtown but settled in nearby Merriweather County, first at Alvaton, then Primrose."
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, plate 42, two pitchers upper left
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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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- Condition
glaze voids and anomalies as made, jug with minor surface abrasions, and base edge wear, otherwise good condition, pitcher with surface abrasions and minor glaze frits to body and foot, rim with abrasions and various chips to rim and spout, Stork pitcher with small glaze chip to rim and other miniscule frits, 1/4 in. glaze chip to front of pitcher and another small glaze chip, glaze frits to base edge, various other miniscule glaze frits to surface, wear under spout
