Early regional pottery of East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia is featured in the July 2009 issue of A! Magazine for the Arts, a publication of Arts Alliance Mountain Empire in Bristol, TN. For more information: Early Regional Pottery.
East Tennessee and Soutwestern Virginia Pottery lecture at MESDA
John Case, President, Case Antiques, Inc. will give a lecture on East Tennessee and Southwestern Virginia Earthenware at the Museum of Southern Decorative Arts Summer Institute 2009: Ethnicity to Regionalism: Explorations in Backcountry Material Culture on July 14th.
Lot 101: An exceptional East Tennessee redware pitcher, attributed to Cain pottery
East Tennessee redware pitcher, attributed to the Cain pottery of Sullivan County, TN. Manganese and gold/yellow slip decoration with multiple sine wave incising around midsection, extruded handle. Manganese drips run down the interior of the pitcher as well. The glaze, elaborate use of manganese and yellow slips, and sine wave incising is exceptional on this […]
Lot 18: Middle Tennessee stoneware jar, signed in script "G W Dunn", sine wave incising
Middle Tennessee two handled jar, signed in script, “G W Dunn” (George Washington Dunn, Tennessee) with incised line and sine wave around upper midsection. Incised “3” on opposite side denotes gallon capacity. Red brown dip glaze, grey on lower section. Condition – overall excellent condition, faint hairlines on underside of base. 17″ height. Early 20th […]
Great Road Pottery of East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia
Southern redware and stoneware research has made significant strides in the last 25 years. Entire new schools of pottery have been discovered, uncovering new forms and traditions. The pottery of the “Great Road”, encompassing Southwest Virginia and Eastern Tennessee represents a newly discovered pottery tradition. The Great Road region The Great Road name was given […]
Lot 1054: 12 James B. Keller TN Folk Art Bricks
Group of twelve (12) Tennessee hand-made bricks attributed to James Barry Keller (1838-1909), son of John B. Keller Jr. (1810-1883) of the Keller family of brick makers in Toone, Hardeman County, West Tennessee (there were also Kellers in Hardeman County listed as potters – ref. Samuel D. Smith and Stephen T. Rogers, “A Survey of Historic Pottery […]
Lot 452: 2 R.C. Gorman Signed Lithos, Woman w/ Tulip Bowl & Danya
Two (2) Rudolph Carl Gorman (New Mexico/Arizona/California, 1932-2005) color lithographs. 1st item: “Woman with a Tulip Bowl” (State II), 1981. A seated woman in a blue dress places her left hand on the rim of a pottery vessel decorated with a tulip motif. From the Roman numeral edition of 25 outside of the Arabic numeral edition of 150. […]
Lot 450: Edward Curtis Orotone Photograph, At The Old Well of Acoma
Edward S. Curtis (American, 1868-1952), “At the Old Well of Acoma,” gold tone AKA Curt-Tone photograph on glass. An Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico, woman or girl sits on a rock and watches as a second figure dips a pottery vessel into a body of water, with rocky cliffs beyond. Signed and with Los Angeles (“LA”) copyright […]
Lot 233: East TN Decker Cobalt Decorated Stoneware Jar
East Tennessee stoneware pottery jar attributed to Charles Decker of the Decker pottery of Washington County (1832 – 1914). Four (4) cobalt decorated flowers with five petals each around the circumference of the jar. One of the flowers is applied horizontally, an unusual variance for Charles Decker. Underside of base with partially legible inscription reading […]
Lot 229: 2 East TN Grindstaff Stoneware Pitchers
Two (2) East Tennessee, Blount County, salt-glazed stoneware 1-gallon pottery pitchers, with 3 incised lines around the shoulder by Grindstaff Pottery (1870 – 1890). One with an impressed half-crescent mark reading W. GRINSTAFF 18 to the upper shoulder and upper body, and 1 denoting capacity, and the other pitcher of similar form but not stamped. The […]
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