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Oct 17, 2023 · Brady Nash. - October 17, 2023. Ceramic face jug by Jim McDowell. Photography by Iain Bagwell. Emblazoned with features both grotesque and enigmatic, face jugs are a style of folk pottery...
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Apr 8, 2016 · Jesse Vestal was a Virginia potter in the Great Road tradition (Opens in a new browser tab) face jugs folk pottery Meaders family White County GA. The Meaders family of potters is probably the most influential family in the history of Southern Appalachian folk pottery.
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Lanier’s face jugs are earthy, often eerie, creations, and every worthy pottery collection seems to hold at least one, despite skyrocketing prices. “Milton Meaders opened the Meaders Pottery in 1893, employing his [five] sons to assist hired local potters,” according to the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which includes three Lanier face ...
on a Meaders face jug. Lanier Meaders was one of Georgia’s last practicing traditional potters. A fourth-generation potter, he grew up in the Mossey Creek district of White County, one of the state’s major traditional pottery centers. His face jug is an altered vernacular one-gallon jug to which applied clay additions form the features of a ...
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Aug 7, 2017 · Lanier Meaders can be credited with keeping the Southern folk pottery making of Georgia alive and vital with his distinct style and sculptural creativity shown both in his traditional functional pottery and face jugs which utilize stones for teeth.
Possum Pottery, Cochran, Georgia. 1,657 likes · 5 were here. Face Jugs and/or Ugly Jugs crafted in the North Georgia Folk Art tradition with expression and animation is what poSSum pottery uniquely...
Lanier can be credited with single-handedly keeping Southern folk pottery from all but dying with his distinct style and sculptural creativity. These qualities are best evidenced in Lanier’s one-of-a kind face jugs, without which no Southern folk pottery collection is complete.
