About This Artwork
Artist unknown
Edgefield District, South Carolina
Face Jugc. 1860
Alkaline-glazed stoneware
H. 13.3 cm (5 1/4 in.)
Juli and David Grainger Fund, 2006.84
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Publication History
Charles G. Zug, III, The Traditional Pottery of North Carolina (University of North Carolina Press, 1981).
John A. Burrison, Brothers in Clay (University of Georgia Press, 1983).
Charles G. Zug, III, Turners and Burners: The Folk Potters of North Carolina (University of North Carolina, 1986).
Cinda K. Baldwin, Great and Noble Jar: Traditional Stoneware of South Carolina (McKissick Museum/University of South Carolina Press, 1993).
Nancy Sweezy, Raised in Clay: The Southern Pottery Tradition (University of North Carolina Press, 1994).
Judith A. Barter and Monica Obniski, "For Kith and Kin: The Folk Art Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago," (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2012) no. 31.
Ownership History
Diana and Gary Stradling, from c. 1960s to 2006; sold to The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006.