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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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Five Pieces Mossy Creek Georgia Stoneware, Four Attributed to Joseph "Tarp" Dorsey
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Five Pieces Mossy Creek Georgia Stoneware, Four Attributed to Joseph "Tarp" Dorsey

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(Mossy Creek, White County, GA, 1847-1925) small churn jar, dark olive green alkaline lime glaze, angled strap handle, inscribed "2" at shoulder, flared rim, lid ledge, 11-1/2 in.; pitcher, light olive green alkaline lime glaze, ridged strap handle, 11 in.; large elongated jug, runny dark olive green ash glaze, tight ridged strap handle at shoulder, straight collared spout, 17 in.; elongated jug, underfired runny alkaline ash glaze, ridged strap handle, straight collared spout, 16-1/4 in.; elongated jug, olive green alkaline lime glaze, wide ridged strap handle, inscribed "3" on shoulder, turning marks to upper body, spout with ridged neck, 17-1/2 in.

Provenance: From the Folklife Collection of Southern Pottery Scholar, Author and Professor of English at Georgia State University, Dr. John Burrison, Atlanta, Georgia

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, surface abrasions and wear, glaze frits, churn jar with rim wear and wear and abrasions at belly, pitcher with seven small rim chips, the largest is 1 in., glaze frits to body, base edges chips and wear, runny glaze jug with rim restoration, two half in chips to handle, glaze chips to body throughout, chunk of kiln debris on base edge, surface wear, base edge wear, other jug with 1 in. rim loss, 1/4 in. rim chip, underfired glaze, unattributed jug with interior rim chip and exterior rim chip, lost off surface abrasions to belly and lower body of jar, other abrasions and firing anomalies, base edge chips and wear, slight spalling on base, other firing anomalies

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