(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