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Collection of Carole Wahler | January 29, 2025

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As a singular figure in the world of American pottery and early textiles, Dr. Wahler was a celebrated curator, collector, and scholar. Early Southern furniture including four MESDA documented items: VA William and Mary paneled trunk, VA Chippendale Cupboard, TN inlaid cherry chest of drawers and a TN cherry high chest, many early Southern painted furniture examples, Ten Ulysses Davis folk art carvings, textiles to include a rare Asheville sampler dated 1824, quilt dated1861, rare Southern salt glaze and redware pottery examples to include TN, AL and NC. Brunk Auctions support@brunkauctions.com
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Rare Signed Samuel P. McFarland East Tennessee Stoneware Jar

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(Green County, Tennessee, b.1854 d.1931) Bristol glaze, cylindrical form with tapered shoulder, inscribed "SPM" twice in combed line decoration to the front of jar under a combed wavy line decoration, two incised lines at neck between two applied arched lug handles, angled flat tooled rim, 13 in.

Note: Illustrated in Tennessee Turned, Earthenware and Stoneware Made in East Tennessee, 1800-1900, Part One, by Carole Carpenter Waller, pg. 80, cat no. 88. This publication is based on the exhibition Made in East Tennessee: Pottery, held at the Museum of East Tennessee History in Knoxville, Tennessee, from September 10, 1996, through February 7, 1997. This catalog was commissioned by the East Tennessee Historical Society, with support from others, during the successive exhibition with the same title, at the Museum of East Tennessee History, from May 16th through October 30th, 2011.

Provenance: Collection of Carole Wahler, Knoxville, Tennessee

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Collection of Carole Wahler, Knoxville, Tennessee

glaze voids and anomalies as made, various chips and losses to glaze throughout especially at back of jar, same glaze condition in interior, wear and loss of glaze to flat of rim, wear to entire interior rim edge, chips to edge of exterior rim, the largest being 1/2 in., 1/2 in. clay loss to one handle, glaze frit to the other, wear and chips to base edge, largest 3/4 in.

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