late 19th century, all with olive green alkaline ash glaze, some shiny brownish runs, largest with inscribed "3" on shoulder, short applied strap handles perched on shoulder, short straight spouts, two of them wide, one with cherry wood stopper, found in a Georgia mountain smokehouse, maker unidentified, 11-1/2, 12-1/2, and 13 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. 60, items 31, two jugs on the right and the one on the left, Burrison writes, "...dendritic patterned ash glaze known to local potters as "Shanghai" glaze, suggesting an initial awareness of Oriental inspiration. Ranging in capacity from one to three gallons, the jugs, one of which retains a whittled stopper, came out of a smokehouse in mountainous Towns County containing a residue of sorghum molasses".