Georgia Stoneware Auction Highlights

$36,000

James Madison Bussel, Washington County, GA, 1872 Presentation Pitcher for Pleasant Grove Baptist Church

WORLD AUCTION RECORD: GEORGIA STONEWARE

08-05-2022

$32,400

Stoneware Face Jug by Arie Meaders at the Cheever Meaders Pottery, Cleveland, GA, c1956-69

04-05-2024

$15,600

Anna Pottery Salt-Glazed Stoneware Pig Flask with Elberton, GA Advertising

04-09-2021

$14,400

James Long or John Becham, Crawford County, GA Large Stoneware Jar

03-21-2020

$10,620

Crawford County, Georgia Stoneware Syrup Jug

03-25-2017

$9,775

Stoneware Face Harvest Jug, probably Barrow County, Georgia, c1880-1900

10-17-2015

$9,200

Brown Family, Atlanta, GA Stoneware Face Jug, Inscribed "Gon But Not forgotten"

03-19-2016

$9,000

Stoneware Face Jug attrib. William Hewell at the "Daddy Bill" Dorsey Pottery, White County, Georgia

01-31-2025

$8,400

Cartersville, Georgia, Stoneware Figural Bottle, attrib. William Joseph Gordy, c1935

01-30-2026

$7,670

Crawford County, Georgia Seven-Gallon Double-Handled Jug

07-22-2017

$6,325

"F.L.B." (Franklin L. Becham, Crawford County, GA) Double-Handled Jug

07-19-2014

$6,000

Georgia Stoneware Pottery Face Jug w/ Applied Lizard, late 19th century

01-30-2026

$5,700

"Gon But Not forgotten" Stoneware Face Jug, attrib. Brown Family, Atlanta, Georgia

04-05-2024

$5,400

Meaders Family Face Jug w/ Rock Eyes and Teeth, early 20th century

08-04-2023

$4,800

BROWN POTTERY, Arden NC (circa 1930) Stoneware Face Jug

11-19-2021

$4,720

Shimuel Timmerman, Lanier County, Georgia Stoneware Churn

03-23-2019

$4,720

Becham Family, Crawford County, GA Stoneware Coffee Boiler

03-23-2019

$4,500

Early-Period Stoneware Face Jug, attrib. Brown Family, Atlanta, GA or Arden, NC

08-04-2023

$4,313

Anna Pottery Georgia Advertising Pig Bottle: "J.O. Sanders. / Dealer in Wines / Liquors and Cigars. / Elberton G.A. / 1883"

03-14-2015

$4,200

Attrib. Charles P. Ferguson, Barrow County, Georgia Stoneware Face Jug

04-10-2026

$3,835

FLB (Franklin L. Becham, Crawford County, GA) Stoneware Jug

03-25-2017

$3,540

CJB (Columbus Jackson Becham, Crawford County, GA) Stoneware Jug

03-25-2017

$3,360

Lucius Jordan, Washington County, Georgia Five-Gallon Stoneware Jar, Impressed LJ

08-05-2022

$3,120

Dougherty County, Georgia, Stoneware Jar

12-04-2020

$3,068

Rare Glazed Stoneware Face Jug, probably Brown Family, Atlanta, GA, late 19th or early 20th century

10-28-2017

Georgia's stoneware industry boasted beautiful alkaline-glazed wares, made in major production centers like Crawford and Washington Counties. Georgia is also known for its famous face jugs, and you can view our page of Meaders Pottery highlights here, made in the twentieth century in Cleveland, GA. Also included on this page are a few objects made outside of the state but bearing rare Georgia advertising.