American & Southern | December 5, 2024
Thu, Dec 5, 2024 10:00AM EST
Lot 1128
Rare Georgia Attributed Figural Stoneware Jug
Estimate: $2,000 - $4,000
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(Jugtown, Upson/Pike Counties, Georgia, circa 1870) olive green alkaline lime glaze, ovoid jug body form, applied looping strap arm with five fingered hand at belly of jar, tapered ovoid head form, applied facial features including articulated high brow and chin, open mouth with pursed lips, pinched nose with nostrils, oval eyelids with pierced pupils, small ears, collared spout, 16 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. 122, cat. no. 206, Burrison writes "The missing arm held a pipe to the mouth. Figural jugs were later made by W.T.B. Gordy, who trained with the bishops, and by his own son D. X. Gordy."
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, pg 58, cat. no. 206
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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, loss of entire left arm leaving a 1-1/2 in. x 2 in. loss on clay body at shoulder, glaze chips to three fingers on hand, glaze chips to lower lip, 3/4 in. loss to end of nose, losses to most of both ears, 3/4 in. and 1/2 in. chip to rim with other small chips and wear, other minor surface abrasions and glaze frits to body, hole drilled in back near lower base edge, old wear and minor chips to base edge
