(Henry, Lincoln County, North Carolina, Circa 1930's) runny brown alkaline glaze, double jug form, spouts on opposing sided of jars, stirrup handle over top of jug, stamped "North Carolina" on base, 8-1/4 in.

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

Note: In the catalog description from Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in a Changing South, John Burrison, University of Georgia Press, 2000, pg. 128, cat. no. 279, Burrison writes, "A type of water jug common to Meditarrean Europe, and Africa, the monkey jug has a stirrup handle and canted spout. The double type with one compartment for whisky and the other for water 'chaser' was a later Catawba Valley tourist specialty as the 'North Carolina' on the base suggests,"

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

Illustrated: Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in the Changing South, John Burrison, University of Georgia Press, 2000, color plate 7, center of book, cat. no. 275