(Mossy Creek, White County, Georgia, 1875-1965) both jugs with light and dark olive green runny mottled alkaline ash glazes, Wiley Meaders attributed whiskey jug, circa 1910, incised line at shoulder, short arched strap handle from shoulder to neck of curved spout, 10-3/4 in.; large tapered ovoid jug, large arched wide strap handle, three incised lines at shoulder, incised line at neck, curved neck, flared collared rim, 17-1/2 in.; canning jar, light olive green runny mottled glaze, angled shoulder, flared rim, lid ledge, 10-1/4 in.

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

Note: In the catalog description from Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in a Changing South, John Burrison, University of Georgia Press, 2000, pg. 110, cat. no. 53, in relation to the whisky jug, Burrison writes, "This stoneware jug is typical of those used by north Georgia moonshiners until glass and metal containers became available."

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, jar pictured in photo 44, top right