Lot #: 382
Price Realized: $720.00
($600 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
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Alkaline-Glazed Stoneware Devil Face Jug, Signed and Dated "Ruby Meaders 2000" and "Dwayne Crocker," Ruby Meaders and Dwayne Crocker, GA origin, 2000, ovoid jug with hand-modeled and applied devil face including horns, goatee, pointed ears, and crooked teeth with protruding tongue, the surface covered in an olive-colored alkaline glaze with red glaze to horns and eyes and white glaze to teeth and tongue. "Ruby Meaders / 2000" signature and date incised near base and "Dwayne Crocker" signature incised on underside. A collaborative work between Southern folk potters, Ruby Meaders and Dwayne Crocker. Exhibited: Amen, Amen: Religion and Southern Self-Taught Artists in the Mullis Collection, Jundt Art Museum, Gonzaga University, October 4, 2014 to January 10, 2015. Provenance: Carl and Marian Mullis Collection; On long-term loan to Colonial Williamsburg, 2019 to 2023. Excellent, essentially as-made condition. H 9".
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