(Greene County, Tennessee, b.? d. after 1890s) salt glaze, cylindrical form, inscribed "D.E. Maynor, Potter town" on front of jar, two incised lines at neck between two applied lug handles, thick tooled flared rim, 12-3/4 in. 

Provenance: Collection of Carole Wahler, Knoxville, Tennessee

Note: In Tennessee Potteries, Pots and Potters, 1790s - 1950, Volume 2, by Samuel D. Smith and Stephen T. Rodgers, research states,  "The name D. E. Mayner is only known by way of two stoneware vessels in East Tennessee collections. One of these is a small crock with cursive incising that reads 'D. E. Mayner' over 'Potter Town' (Figure 3-123). The other is a tall widemouth jar with similar cursive incising: 'D. E. Mayner' over 'Potter town' (Figure 3- 124). Mayner is assumed to be one of the 1880s to 1890s employees of the M. P. Harmon stoneware pottery at 'Pottertown' in Greene County (ET site 40GN28). The absence of an 1890 census makes it difficult to identify individuals who may have worked here during the middle portion of this period. A search of Greene County records did not yield evidence for any contemporary Mayners, yet, a John Mayner is one of the people (a wagon driver) named on the back of a ca. 1894 photograph of the M. P. Harmon pottery (Figure 2-34)." The example we are offering appears to be the latter in the above research.