Lot #: 307
Price Realized: $1,020.00
($850 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
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Stoneware Face Jug, attributed to Brown Pottery, Arden, NC, circa 1930, ovoid jug with applied facial features, including bulging eyes with raised and pierced pupils, eyebrows, a Roman nose with carved nostrils, small ears with pierced centers, and open mouth baring broken china teeth. Incised eyelashes and details to eyebrows. Surface covered in a brown Albany slip glaze. Unmarked. An in-the-firing flake to edge of nose. Loss to one eyebrow, possibly in-the-making. Various in-the-firing lines surface lines/fissure, including one on underside. H 6 1/4".
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