(W.T.B Gordy, Fayette County, Aberdeen area, Merriweather County, Alvaton area, Greenville area, Georgia, 1877-1955) buggy jug and pitcher, circa 1920s, Albany slip glazes, jug stamped "WTB GORDY ALVATON GA" and inscribed "2-1/2" to lower body, two bands of combed triple wavy line decoration at shoulder, strap handle from shoulder to neck of spout, 9 x 9-1/2 in.; pitcher stamped on front "WTB GORDY" above incised line, footed base, arched strap handle, flared rim, pulled spout, 10 in.: (E.L. Stork, Columbia SC, Merriweather, Cherokee, Coweeta, Washington, and Crawford Counties, GA, 1868 - 1925) circa 1909 - 1920, Albany slip, curved pitcher form, angled strap handle, pulled spout, stamped "E.L. STORK, ORANGE, GA" at shoulder, 10 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. 122, cat. no. 210, Burrison writes, "With it's low center of gravity, the squat form was designed to prevent tipping over when placed on the floor of a buggy. A jug this large (marked two and one half gallons) may have been made as a hot water foot warmer. The maker was trained at Jugtown but settled in nearby Merriweather County, first at Alvaton, then Primrose."

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 42, two pitchers upper left