Rare Small-Sized White Co, GA Stoneware Face Jug attrib. William Hewell at "Daddy Bill" Dorsey Pottery

Winter 2026 Auction of the Carole Wahler Collection

Lot #: 238

Price Realized: $6,000.00

($5,000 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)

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Rare Small-Sized Albany-Slip-Glazed Stoneware Face Jug, attributed to William Hewell at the "Daddy Bill" Dorsey Pottery, Mossy Creek, White County, GA, early 20th century, wheel-thrown ovoid jug with small handle and semi-rounded spout, decorated with a hand-modeled and applied clay face including eyes with incised elliptical pupils, C-scroll ears, nose with carved nostrils, closed mouth, and rounded chin. Combed incising forms hair on the figure's head and additional incising forms eyebrows and a beard. Surface covered in a chocolate-brown Albany slip glaze. Affectionately referred to by Wahler as "Little Zonka," this work is potted in an unusually small size for this potting school. Proper left ear missing. Otherwise minor flaws: a tiny nick to proper right ear, two minor in-the-firing fissures to underside of upper handle terminal, a tiny spout nick, and a small in-the-firing contact mark at base. H 5 1/2".