(Randolph and Moore Counties, North Carolina, 1827-1895) salt glaze, ovoid syrup jug form, stamped "JD CRAVEN" at shoulder, three channeled arched applied long tailed strap handles from shoulder to spout, curved neck, tooled rounded rim, 20-1/2 in.; hat form cream riser, tapered walls, wavy flat rim, inscribed "1 1/2" in large font on side, likely Randolph, Moore, or Chatham counties, 7 x 11 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. 128, cat. no. 272, Burrison writes, "The Cravens were among the oldest and most prominent pottery families in the Seagrove area. Their patriarch. Peter Craven, is said to have been an English potter who migrated to central North Carolina about 1760. Descendants potted in Georgia, Tennessee, and Missouri as well as North Carolina." For the cream riser, cat. no. 273, Burrison writes, "The characteristic North Carolina hat shape also was made by Catawba Valley potters in alkaline-glazed stoneware and may derive from a similar Moravian or Welsh earthenware form." 

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: Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in the Changing South, John Burrison, University of Georgia Press, 2000, color plate 7, middle of book, cat. no. 272 and 273