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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
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Lot 1187

Large E.J. Brown North Carolina Pottery Ring Bottle

Estimate: $100 - $200
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$50

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(Skyland, Buncombe County, North Carolina, circa 1975) "secret formula" brown glaze to one side, other half unglazed, stamped "Evan's Pottery", indiscernible line, and "Hand Made", straight spout, 14-1/2 in. across

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, pg123, cat. no. 223, Burrison writes, "In 1924 Javan and his brother Davis, sons of Atlanta potter James O. Brown, established the Brown Pottery at Arden, North Carolina. Toward the end of his career Javan worked at the shop of his son, Evan, in nearby Skyland. He called this an 'old time' ring jug, unglazed and porous on one side so evaporation would keep the water cool."

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

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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

glaze voids and anomalies as made, clay body anomalies, good condition