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Day 2: American, Southern & European Decorative Arts

Sat, Jan 28, 2017 09:00AM EST - Mon, Jan 30, 2017 09:00AM EST
Lot 486

Southern Stoneware Face Jug

Estimate: $1,000 - $2,000

Bid Increments

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brown glaze overall, with mottled greenish black glaze runs at top of jar, down back of head and sides of face, applied facial features including nicely articulated ears, pronounced chin and lips, broken china teeth, white clay eyeballs with red pupils inset in eyelids with related eyebrows, incised hair decoration at head and upper lip, applied strap handle from shoulder to base of spout, possibly of Alabama or Georgia make, 10-3/4 in.. Condition: glaze voids and anomalies as made, minor firing separations, restorations at upper left eyelid and brow, and lower lip, minor loss to corner of right eye with small restoration, chips and restoration to left and right ear, base edge wear. Provenance: Christies, The John Gordon Collection of Folk Americana, 1999, lot 1175; Sewell Collection, Georgia

Condition

glaze voids and anomalies as made, minor firing separations, restorations at upper left eyelid and brow, and lower lip, minor loss to corner of right eye with small restoration, chips and restoration to left and right ear, base edge wear