Face Jug

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Arts of the Americas

c. 1860

Artist unknown
American, 19th century
Edgefield District, South Carolina

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Artist unknown
Title: Face Jug
Origin: Edgefield county
Date: c. 1860
Medium: Stoneware and alkaline glaze
Dimensions: H.: 13.3 cm (5 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Juli and David Grainger Fund
Reference Number: 2006.84
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Annual Report (Art Institute of Chicago, 2005–2006), 22 (ill. p. 29).
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).
Frances McQueeney–Jones Mascolo, “For Kith and Kin: The Folk Art Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago,” Antiques and The Arts Weekly, August 3, 2012, 1, 30–1 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter and Monica Obniski, For Kith and Kin: The Folk Art Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago, (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2012) no. 31.

With Diana and Gary Stradling, New York, NY, c. 1960 to 2006; sold to The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006.

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