American & Southern | December 5, 2024
Thu, Dec 5, 2024 10:00AM EST
Lot 1135
Georgia Face Jug Attributed to Charles P. Ferguson
Estimate: $1,000 - $2,000
Bid Increments
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| $0 | $25 |
| $100 | $50 |
| $1,000 | $100 |
| $2,000 | $200 |
| $3,000 | $250 |
| $5,000 | $500 |
| $10,000 | $1,000 |
| $20,000 | $2,000 |
| $50,000 | $5,000 |
| $100,000 | $10,000 |
(Gillsville, Jackson County, Georgia, 1850-1917) circa 1900, unglazed red clay curved jug form, brown Albany slip glaze to the top and back of jug, applied facial features including comma form ears, large arched smiling lips, elongated nose, articulated eyes with slip glazed pupils, incised hair decoration, short flat spout, arched ridged strap handle, 6-3/4 in.
Provenance: From the Folklife Collection of Southern Pottery Scholar, Author and Professor of English at Georgia State University, Dr. John Burrison, Atlanta, Georgia
Note: from Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in the Changing South, John Burrison, University of Georgia Press, 2000, pg. 124, cat. no. 229. Burrison writes, "Having married Eli Hewell's potter daughter Catherine, Charlie (grandson of Charles H. Ferguson) came with the Hewells from Barrow County. He first worked at the Addington shop (then owned by James Henderson), where this piece was made (attribution made by a marked and dated example by the same hand)."
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, pg. 75
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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
clay body and glaze anomalies as made, minor surface abrasions, 1/4 and 3/8 in. rim chips, small chips to interior rim, 1 in. loss to upper left ear, other chips to back of ear, 1 in. loss to right nostril, 3/4 in. loss to upper right ear, firing separation to right pupil as made, wear and chips to base edge, yellow paint residue to base edge
