American & Southern | December 5, 2024
Thu, Dec 5, 2024 10:00AM EST
Lot 1241
Clete Meaders Georgia Stoneware Bust
Estimate: $200 - $400
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(Hoschton, Jackson County, Georgia, 1995) runny green ash glaze over entire form, highly articulated facial expression with applied facial features, inset kaolin clay eyes and teeth, applied baseball hat cocked backwards inscribed "SHUT UP AND FISH !!!", signed on base "Clete Meaders 1995", 11-1/2 in.
Provenance: From the Folklife Collection of Southern Pottery Scholar, Author and Professor of English at Georgia State University, Dr. John Burrison, Atlanta, Georgia
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
