American & Southern | December 5, 2024
Thu, Dec 5, 2024 10:00AM EST
Lot 1201
Edgefield Style Mossy Creek Or Mountain Area Georgia Storage Jar
Estimate: $400 - $800
Bid Increments
| Price | Bid Increment |
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| $0 | $25 |
| $100 | $50 |
| $1,000 | $100 |
| $2,000 | $200 |
| $3,000 | $250 |
| $5,000 | $500 |
| $10,000 | $1,000 |
| $20,000 | $2,000 |
| $50,000 | $5,000 |
| $100,000 | $10,000 |
circa 1860s, light olive green alkaline lime glaze, rutile highlights to one handle, ovoid form with tapered lower body, applied lug handles to upper shoulder of jar, inscribed "3" at shoulder, single impressed dash at opposing shoulder, curved neck with tooled angled flat rim, unglazed fingerprints in interior rim from glazing, possibly Mossy Creek but more likely unidentified mountain area potter, 12-3/4 in.
Provenance: From the Folklife Collection of Southern Pottery Scholar, Author and Professor of English at Georgia State University, Dr. John Burrison, Atlanta, Georgia
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, also Jane Webb Smith, ed., Georgia’s Legacy: History Charted through the Arts (Athens, GA: Georgia Museum of
Art, 1985), p. 183, #116).
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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, abrasions to belly of jar, 3 in. rim loss, several 1 in. rim chips, other smaller rim chips, two 1/2 in. chips to handle, glaze frits and clay body frits, 3-1/2 in. hairline down from rim beside capacity mark, another 3 in. hairline down from shoulder, illumination under black light due to residue, base edge wear
