Lot #: 320
Price Realized: $1,020.00
($850 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
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Alkaline-Glazed Stoneware Face Jug, Signed "Lanier Meaders," Cleveland, GA, circa 1985, ovoid jug with hand-modeled and applied clay face including kaolin eyes with cobalt-slip pupils, ears, nose, broad chin, and mouth with kaolin teeth. Face includes fine modeling with dimples at the corner of the mouth and two wrinkles descending from the nose. Surface covered in a mottled olive-colored alkaline glaze. Underside incised with Lanier Meaders signature. As-made condition with a 7/8" in-the-firing contact mark (flake) to reverse. H 10 3/4".
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