Two Pieces of Lanier Meaders Georgia Stonewares and Dorsey Attributed Chicken Waterer

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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

  (Mossy Creek, White County, Georgia, 1917-1998) circa 1982, monumental syrup jug, runny mottled olive green alkaline lime ash glaze, tapered cylindrical to rounded shoulder form, 2 incised lines at shoulder, applied rounded strap handles from shoulder to neck of slightly collared spout, inscribed "Lanier Meaders" on base, 21 in.; lidded jar, shiny dark alkaline glaze, runs down one side of jar and handle, applied lug handles, flared rim, lid with knob finial, inscribed on base "Lanier Meaders", 10-3/4 in.; chicken waterer, dark green runny alkaline glaze, knob finial, small hole above base edge, large fill hole in base, unsigned Dorsey Family attributed piece, 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. 126, cat. no. 255, Burrison writes, "In his functional wares Lanier, son of Cheever and Arie, closely followed local tradition, including the elongated syrup-jug form typical of Mossy Creek since the 1840s. By the 1880s, however, Lanier was making mostly ornamental wares such as face jugs."

  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

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• 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, base edge chip to jar as made, minor surface abrasions to jar, chicken waterer with surface abrasions, otherwise good condition