Lot #: 146
Price Realized: $960.00
($800 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
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Alkaline-Glazed Stoneware Face Jug, Signed "Lanier Meaders," Cleveland, GA, circa late 1980s, ovoid jug with hand-modeled and applied clay face including kaolin eyes with black-slip pupils, upturned nose, rounded cheeks, and mouth with kaolin teeth. Surface covered in a mottled glossy-to-matte alkaline glaze, brown on the upper body and olive below. Underside incised with Lanier Meaders signature. Provenance: From a fifty-year SC collection. Excellent, essentially as-made condition. H 11".
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