American & Southern | December 5, 2024
Thu, Dec 5, 2024 10:00AM EST
Lot 1133
Very Rare and Important Azzel W. Davidson Alabama Stoneware Storage Jar
Estimate: $1,000 - $2,000
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| $100 | $50 |
| $1,000 | $100 |
| $2,000 | $200 |
| $3,000 | $250 |
| $5,000 | $500 |
| $10,000 | $1,000 |
| $20,000 | $2,000 |
| $50,000 | $5,000 |
| $100,000 | $10,000 |
(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
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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
glaze voids and anomalies as made, surface abrasions especially around belly of jar, 3/8 in. quartz blowout at belly,1/4 in. and 1/2 in. chip to rim, professional restoration to most of the upper portion of rim with a larger area of restoration moving down onto shoulder of one side of jar, all illuminating under black light, some residue on body of jar, 2-1/2 in. hairlines associated with the restoration down from rim
