Storage Jar

1857

David Drake
American, c. 1801–1870s
Lewis Miles Stoney Bluff Manufactory [plantation]
American, c. 1840–1870s
Edgefield, South Carolina

Status: On View, Gallery 161
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artists: David Drake , Lewis Miles Stoney Bluff Manufactory [plantation] (Manufacturer)
Title: Storage Jar
Places: Edgefield (Object made in), United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date: 1857
Medium: Stoneware with alkaline glaze
Inscriptions: Inscribed on body: Lm September 7 1857 / Dave
Dimensions: 45.7 × 43.2 cm (18 × 17 in.); Diam.: 43.2 cm (17 in.)
Credit Line: Through prior bequest of Arthur Rubloff; Wesley M. Dixon Jr. Endowment Fund
Reference Number: 2020.58
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The Magazine Antiques, 153: 5 (May, 1998): 644 (ill.).
Jori Finkel, “The Enslaved Artist Whose Pottery Was an Act of Resistance,” The New York Times, last modified June 18, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/17/arts/design/-enslaved-potter-david-drake-museum.html, (ill.).

Columbia, SC, McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina, “I made this jar…”: The Life and Work of the Enslaved African-American Potter, Dave, April 19–December 19, 1998, cat.; Atlanta, High Museum of Art, May 16–July 31, 1999; Detroit, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, October 9–January 2, 2000; and Winterthur Museum, February 5–June 25, 2000.

Tony and Marie Shank, Georgetown, SC; Brad Rauschenberg and Judy Aanstad, Winston-Salem, SC, by 1998 [according to “I made this jar…”: The Life and Work of the Enslaved African-American Potter, Dave, exh. cat., Columbia: McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina, 1998]; sold, Brunk Auctions, Asheville, NC, February 8, 2020, lot 1210, to the Art Institute of Chicago.

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