(Crawford County, Georgia, 1832-1900) greenish tan lime alkaline glaze, beehive whisky jug form, inscribed at shoulder "J. MARSHALL'S JUG, MADE AND WARRANTED BY J.C. AVERA, AUG The 31st 1871.", extensively decorated including an incised primitive folky foxhunt scene of a man in a possible tweed suit holding a long gun watching two dogs in flight pursue a fox, several tiers of incised crosshatching on shoulder and around back of jar representing forest lands, impressed cross stamps in rows on either side of date, two stacked rows of cross stamps to lower body of jar, applied strap handles, collared neck with tooled flared spout, 12-1/4 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 " Working at Jesse Long's shop, Avera made this piece for John Marshall, a wealthy landowner who loved foxhunting."

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, pg. 159, plate 92, and pg. 160, also color plate 5 in center of book, refer to Burrison's associated story After The Fox: In Pursuit of a Special Jug, pgs. 158-161