American & Southern | December 5, 2024
Thu, Dec 5, 2024 10:00AM EST
Lot 1213
Arie Waldrup Meaders Attributed Decorated Stoneware Piggy Bank
Estimate: $400 - $800
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(Mossy Creek, White County, Georgia, circa 1950s) runny "spar" or Bristol glaze, red and cobalt paint decoration and highlights to ears, tail, nose, cheeks and eyes, "Douglas" painted on right side of body, 5-1/2 x 7-1/4 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. 126, cat. no. 254, Burrison writes, "The piggy bank, based on the jug form when thrown on the wheel, is an older tradition, but Arie, Cheever's wife, also created a unique line of pottery birds and animals."
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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From the Folklife Collection of Southern Pottery Scholar, Author and Professor of English at Georgia State University, Dr. John Burrison, Atlanta, Georgia
glaze voids and anomalies as made, good condition
