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American & Southern | December 5, 2024

Thu, Dec 5, 2024 10:00AM EST
Lot 1132

Thomas Chandler Attributed Decorated Stoneware Pitcher

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

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likely made at Kirksey's Crossroads pottery, Greenwood County, S.C. circa 1852, ovoid pitcher form, alkaline lime glaze, two tone kaolin and iron slip leaf decoration around shoulder and at spout, collared rim, pinched spout, applied strap handle, 8-1.2 in. 

Provenance: From the Folklife Collection of Southern Pottery Scholar, Author and Professor of English at Georgia State University, Dr. John Burrison, Atlanta, Georgia

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. 57, cat. no. 183 

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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, old wear around base edge, two old chips to clay body on base edge, restoration to entire handle, restoration to left side of rim from handle to spout, some restorations to interior rim, minor abrasions and glaze frits, old hairlines on base exterior likely as made