(Mossy Creek, White County, Georgia, 1917-1998) circa 1978, olive and creamy green alkaline ash and lime glaze, kaolin teeth and eyes with circular black pupils, similar applied facial features to both sides of jar, two applied strap handles from shoulder to neck of spout, four opposing candleholders around shoulder, "Lanier Meaders" inscribed on base with original $50 price tape, 9 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. 127, cat. no. 265, Burrison writes, "In response to a folk art dealers request, Lanier began making two faced jugs, which he came to call "politician" jugs after watching the televised Watergate hearings, some later examples have horn like candle holders."

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: From Mud to Jug: The Folk Potters and Pottery of Northeast Georgia, John Burrison, University of Georgia Press, 2010, pg. 72, and Brothers in Clay: The Story of Georgia Folk Pottery, John Burrison, University of Georgia Press, 1983, pg. 272.