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Featuring items from the Folklife Collection of Southern Pottery Scholar, Author and Professor of English at Georgia State University, Dr. John Burrison, Atlanta, Georgia: to include early Southern pottery with Edgefield, Georgia and Alabama examples as well as a Lanier Meaders face jug; Southern furniture to include four sugar chests, Kentucky sideboard, early long guns with Southern examples, Chinese export to include three Charles Manigault examples, fine art work by Will Henry Stevens, Carl Kraft and Alice R. Huger Smith and others, silver to include Tiffany and aesthetic movement examples Brunk Auctions support@brunkauctions.com
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Two Folk Dolls and Wood Toy
Lot 1155

Two Folk Dolls and Wood Toy

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American, late 18th and mid 20th century, comprising: limberjack with articulated limbs, Willy (surname unknown), Macon, Bibb County, Georgia, 1950s, painted yellow pine, 14-1/8 x 4-1/2 x 16-1/2; doll with gingham dress and painted face, maker unknown, circa 1881, approx. 20-1/8 x 11 x 2-3/4 in.; "Mammy" doll with red print dress and stitched features, maker unknown, approx. 13-5/8 x 7-1/4 x 2-3/8 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

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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

limberjack example with surface dirt and accretion, slight pest damage, loss to paint at joints and edges, crack on proper right shoulder; gingham dress and Mammy example with wear commensurate with age, some fraying and picked threads, some toning and stains, some surface dirt and lint, label with accession number stitched inside dresses; gingham dress example with several tears in stockings, 2-3/4 in. tear to back of head; Mammy example with 2-1/2 in. tear on proper top right side of chest

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