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Collection of Carole Wahler | January 29, 2025

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As a singular figure in the world of American pottery and early textiles, Dr. Wahler was a celebrated curator, collector, and scholar. Early Southern furniture including four MESDA documented items: VA William and Mary paneled trunk, VA Chippendale Cupboard, TN inlaid cherry chest of drawers and a TN cherry high chest, many early Southern painted furniture examples, Ten Ulysses Davis folk art carvings, textiles to include a rare Asheville sampler dated 1824, quilt dated1861, rare Southern salt glaze and redware pottery examples to include TN, AL and NC. Brunk Auctions support@brunkauctions.com
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Early Piedmont North Carolina Attributed Stoneware Jar

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likely manufactured in the Salem area, late 1700s, salt glaze over tapered ovoid red clay form, stamped "2" with incised lines at shoulder, applied triple groove lug handles with thumb impressed terminals, thick rounded rim, unknown maker, stylistic similarities to early Salem and Randolph County potters, 13-1/2 in.

Provenance: Collection of Carole Wahler, Knoxville, Tennessee

Note: Previously sold at the Southern Folk Potters Collectors Society, 25th sale, April 6th, to May 7th, 2005, lot 117.

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Collection of Carole Wahler, Knoxville, Tennessee

glaze voids and anomalies as made, surface wear and abrasions throughout, wear and chips to rim, spider hairlines to surface near handle, spider hairlines to back of jar, kiln drip, chips to clay body throughout, chip and wear to entire edge of one handle, 1-1/2 in. loss to other handle, chips and wear to interior, 1-1/2 in. loss to base edge with various other chips and wear, heavy wear throughout, two tone clay on base, gray colored interior base surface, evidence of heavy use throughout

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