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Featuring items from the Folklife Collection of Southern Pottery Scholar, Author and Professor of English at Georgia State University, Dr. John Burrison, Atlanta, Georgia: to include early Southern pottery with Edgefield, Georgia and Alabama examples as well as a Lanier Meaders face jug; Southern furniture to include four sugar chests, Kentucky sideboard, early long guns with Southern examples, Chinese export to include three Charles Manigault examples, fine art work by Will Henry Stevens, Carl Kraft and Alice R. Huger Smith and others, silver to include Tiffany and aesthetic movement examples Brunk Auctions support@brunkauctions.com
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Eddie C. Averett Attributed Georgia Stoneware Face Jug
Lot 1134

Eddie C. Averett Attributed Georgia Stoneware Face Jug

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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

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