(Mossy Creek, White County, Georgia, 1917-1998) circa 1967, runny green ash glaze, syrup jug form with elongated spout, two applied round strap handles at shoulders, cut away door form mouth on front of jar, round holes at sides below handles, smaller hole on lower back, unsigned, 17 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. 121, cat. no. 199, Burrison writes, "Lanier had read an article on lasers, which he interpreted as concentrated red light. He made a pair of 'laser jugs' based on the old syrup-jug form, with holes for light bulb sockets and an electric cord. The mouths were meant to face each other and produce a steel-piercing beam; but one jug was ruined in the firing. The experiment reminds us that contemporary southern folk potters take part in the modern world."

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, prologue, photo 3.