likely attributed to Edward Stone, Pole Creek Area, Buncombe County, circa 1850s, unusual double dipped alkaline glaze, reddish glaze to entire large ovoid form, runny black glaze from shoulder with greenish and yellow highlights, thin arched lug handles applied at shoulders, curved neck with tooled angled rim, 15-3/4 in.

Provenance: Collection of Carole Wahler, Knoxville, Tennessee

Note: Edward Stone was one of the earliest Western NC potters. It is believed he worked in the Edgefield District, South Carolina, in the 1840s and may have been associated with a Thomas Chandler stoneware manufactory prior to moving to Buncombe County. He set up shop in Candler and apprenticed J.S. Penland. He is believed to be the link between Edgefield style forms with alkaline glazes and the Western North Carolina utilitarian stoneware tradition. Several glazed forms, similar to the one offered here, have turned up in the Buncombe County area and are in private collections. One of them has a hard to discern "ESTONE"  stamp on the belly of the jar under the runny black overglaze..