all pieces likely circa late 1800s, Sligh's Mill Pottery jug, Northern Paulding County, circa 1870s, runny mottled light green alkaline glaze, ovoid jug with tapered shoulder and spout, arched strap handle, collared rim, 10-1/2 in.; Crawford County jug, ovoid form, runny dark olive green glaze, arched strap handle, short spout, collared rim, 10-1/2 in.; Atlanta Area jug, speckled tannish glaze, flat strap handle, thick collared rim, 9-1/2 in.; Crawford County bean pot, mottled brown and orange alkaline lime paint rock glaze, small strap handles to sides, ridged neck, flared rim, lid ledge, 9-1/2 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
Illustrated: Brothers in Clay: The Story of Georgia Folk Pottery, John Burrison, University of Georgia Press, 1983, Sligh's Mill jug, pg. 208, photo 111, left jug
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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 wear and abrasions, firing lines, base edge wear, rim wear, clay body anomalies, glaze frits to bodies, Sligh's Mill jug with rim chip and 3 in. hairline, 6 in. hairline down other side of rim, lumpy clay walls, kiln debris, chip to handle, staining, Crawford jug with kiln debris, abrasions around belly, quartz pebbles, Atlanta Jug with 5 in. crack across lower base edge with other smaller associated hairlines, small hole in side of jug, two holes in top of jug, abrasions to shoulder, bean pot with wear to rim and small chips around edge, 2 in. firing line to belly as made, small firing lines at shoulder, surface abrasions and glaze chips