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).