American & Southern | December 5, 2024
Thu, Dec 5, 2024 10:00AM EST
Lot 1119
Davis Brown Attributed Stoneware Face Jug
Estimate: $500 - $1,000
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| $1,000 | $100 |
| $2,000 | $200 |
| $3,000 | $250 |
| $5,000 | $500 |
| $10,000 | $1,000 |
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(Arden, North Carolina, 1895-1967) circa 1966, shiny burnt orange experimental glaze with some purple iridescence, applied facial features, articulated eyelashes and eyebrows, broken china teeth, straight spout, applied strap handle, unsigned, 6-1/4 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: Purchased from Davis's wife, for the consignor, by one of his students in 1969 who was doing research on the Brown family for a term paper. The student paid $4.00 for the face jug back then.
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: Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in the Changing South, John Burrison, University of Georgia Press, 2000, pg. 31, cat. no. 5
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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, firing separation at right ear as made with small glaze frit, 3/4 in. chip to glaze at base edge
