American & Southern | December 5, 2024
Thu, Dec 5, 2024 10:00AM EST
Lot 1121
Extremely Rare Early Lanier Meaders Rock Eye and Tooth Stoneware Face Jug
Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000
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(Mossy Creek, White County, Georgia, 1917-1998) 1967, light olive green alkaline lime glaze, large applied protruding facial features including oval eye sockets with large inset rock eyes, large elongated nose, lips with three inset rock teeth in mouth, incised lines around shoulder from eyes to applied strap handle, tapered spout with collared rim, unsigned, 9 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. 127, cat. no. 262, Burrison writes, "Made for the Smithsonian Institution's first Festival of American Folklife in Washington D.C., this order marked the beginning of Lanier's pottery career at the age of fifty. The features, stuck without blending on the jug wall, tended to crack when fired."
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, left eye socket with small and medium shrinkage separations as made, shrinkage separation under left eye as made, right eye socket with three shrinkage separations as made, tiny lines in clay under glaze around nose and left eye as made, jug is in as made condition, great condition overall
