American & Southern | December 5, 2024
Thu, Dec 5, 2024 10:00AM EST
Lot 1134
Eddie C. Averett Attributed Georgia Stoneware Face Jug
Estimate: $1,000 - $2,000
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| $1,000 | $100 |
| $2,000 | $200 |
| $3,000 | $250 |
| $5,000 | $500 |
| $10,000 | $1,000 |
| $20,000 | $2,000 |
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(Crawford County, Georgia, 1876-1928) circa 1920, runny mottled dark green alkaline lime glaze, straight sided, rounded shoulder form, applied facial features, broken china teeth, straight spout, tight curved handle, 8-1/2 in.
Provenance: From the Folklife Collection of Southern Pottery Scholar, Author and Professor of English at Georgia State University, Dr. John Burrison, Atlanta, Georgia
Note: In the catalog description from Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in a Changing South, John Burrison, University of Georgia Press, 2000, pg. 122, cat. no. 205, Burrison writes, "Averett is the only Crawford County potter known to have made face jugs. According to his daughter, Lucile Wills, 'Papa made face jugs for sale...it tickled the men that bought them... to think they had something funny-looking to put their whisky in. Others bought them for home decorations...My mama, Bertha Pender Averett, made the faces on the jugs. The teeth and eyes were made out of pieces of white china.' "
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, firing shrinkage lines to edges of ears as made, shrinkage separation through front of mouth and under lip as made, firing separations on base as made, otherwise good condition
