(Sand Mountain, DeKalb County, Alabama, circa 1860) runny brown and yellow iron bearing ash glaze, slightly ovoid form, stamped "AWD" inside arching banner, small arched applied lug handles at neck, flared rim, lid ledge, 12-1/8 in.

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

Note: In the catalog description from Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in a Changing South, John Burrison, University of Georgia Press, 2000, pg. 121, cat. no. 199, Burrison writes, "Brothers Azzel and Abraham Davidison were trained as potters at Mossy Creek in White County, Georgia, and migrated to Northern Alabama in the 1850s. Azzel died in the civil war." See also Alabama Folk Pottery, Joey Brackner, University of Alabama Press, pgs. 127, 128, and 225 for more info on Azzel and the Davidson family of potters.

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: Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in the Changing South, John Burrison, University of Georgia Press, 2000, color plate 8, center of book, cat. no. 278