Face jug
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The Coventry Face Jug, kept at Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry.
A face jug is a jug pottery which depicts a face. Early examples date from the 14th century,[1] with production of modern versions in the US states of North and South Carolina and Georgia started in the 1940s.[2]
The Coventry Herbert Art Gallery and Museum exhibits a rare medieval face jug unearthed beside the site of the local Benedictine priory.[1]
List of American makers of face jugs
American art potters who create face jugs include:
- Burlon Craig (1914-2002) and
- Robert A. Crook
- Jerry Dolyn Brown
- Charles Lisk from the Catawba Valley Pottery
- Lanier Meaders (1917-1998)
- William A. Flowers
- Rob Withrow of Smoke in the Mountains Pottery and John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, North Carolina
- Jason Mahlke
- Clayton Bailey [3]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Goulden, Barbara. THE HERBERT REVEALS ALL Coventry Telegraph 30 October 2008
- ↑ Ketchum, William C. (2003). "JUGS, FACE". The Encyclopedia of American Folk Art. Cynthia Parzych Publishing, Inc.
- ↑ http://www.claytonbailey.com/jugheads.htm
External links
- Selections of nineteenth-century Afro-American Art, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on face jugs
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