Lot #: 24
Price Realized: $33,040.00
($28,000 hammer, plus 18% buyer's premium)
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Auction Highlight: Greatest Hits | March 25, 2017 Auction | Southern Pottery | Face Jugs
Rare Alkaline-Glazed Stoneware Face Jug, Miles Mill, Edgefield, SC origin, circa 1875, tapered jug with sloped shoulder and distinctive cylindrical spout with flattened rim, decorated with a hand-modeled and applied clay face featuring buff-colored clay eyes and teeth. Surface covered in a dark olive-brown alkaline glaze over reddish clay. Featuring an appealing slender-bodied form, this jug is unusual in the design of its mouth. While the majority of surviving Edgefield face jugs exhibit two rows of gritted teeth, this jug has only one row, creating a more subdued expression. Two larger examples of this type with firing flaws are currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, NY. Two spout chips. A small chip to each eyebrow. An in-the-firing contact mark to one eyelid. A tight hairline extending from shoulder to base on right side of jug's front. A tight hairline extending from shoulder to base on reverse. H 6 1/2".
Extremely Rare and Important Stoneware Face Jug, Edgefield, SC, circa 1860
Rare and Important Edgefield, South Carolina, Stoneware Face Jug
Slip-Decorated Colin Rhodes Edgefield, SC Stoneware Jug
Unusual attrib. Thomas Chandler, Edgefield District, SC Stoneware Jug
Extremely Rare and Important Edgefield, South Carolina, Stoneware Face Cup
Edgefield, SC Stoneware Jar, attributed to Collin Rhodes
Fine Large-Sized CHANDLER / MAKER (Edgefield District, SC) Stoneware Jar w/ Slip Decoration
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