circa 1850's, straight sided pancheon type bowl, light olive speckled alkaline lime glaze, incised wavy line on exterior of bowl, tooled semi round edged flat rim, 4-3/4 x 11 in.; bowl with curved sides, alkaline lime paint rock glaze, tooled angled flat rim, 4 x 11-3/4 in.; pie dish bowl from with fluted ruffle edge rim, olive green alkaline ash glazed interior, unglazed exterior, 3-1/2 x 11-1/4 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: Brothers in Clay: The Story of Georgia Folk Pottery, John Burrison, University of Georgia Press, 1983, pg. 72, plate 43, all three in photo
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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, surface wear, base edge chips and wear, straight sided bowl with circular hairline around entire interior base, six hairlines radiating up the side of interior wall for a few inches from the circular hairline, illumination under black light due to residue, curved wall bowl with glaze crackle in interior, some minor surface abrasions on rim, a few glaze frits, one with hairline on rim, pie dish bowl with spider hairline 4-1/2 in. up side, and 11 in. around side of bowl, the across base meeting up with original hairline running up side, four trapped air bubbles in clay wall, largest 1-1/2 in., base edge chip