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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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Group of Eight Spinning and Textile Objects
Lot 1181

Group of Eight Spinning and Textile Objects

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Greene County, Georgia, mid 1800s, “Big” or “walking” spinning wheel, wood, 57 x 80-1/2 x 9 in. overall; possibly Alabama, mid 1800s, flax break, hardwood, chip carved decoration, 20-1/2 x 47 x 8 in. overall; Crawfordville, Taliaferro County, Georgia, mid 1800s, flax hackle with cover, wood and iron, 6-1/8 x 12-3/4 x 5-1/2 in. overall,

Note: In the catalog description from Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in a Changing South, John Burrison, University of Georgia Press, 2000, pg. 136, cat. no. 403, Burrison writes “This example is said to have been slave-made at Liberty Hall, the plantation of Alexander H. Stephens, vice president of the Confederacy.”; 

Pennsylvania, early 1800s, flax seed ripple or hand comb, wood and iron, attached tag notes its uses and its origin in Western Pennsylvania, 7-1/2 x 19-3/4 in. overall; yarn winder, painted wood, iron, string, 15-1/2 x 7 in. overall; shuttles, carved wood, one has attached tag that states “Shuttle of pine, from Courtney, N.C.”, 10-3/4 x 1-3/4 in. overall

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

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

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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

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