Faces in Clay: The Grotesque Jar Tradition See all the exhibitions.

During the nineteenth century, pottery in the southeastern United States was predominantly made by European immigrants who continued to produce their traditional earthenware and salt-glazed stoneware. There were, however, areas in the South where alkaline-glazed stoneware was made. This stoneware, as it was used in a highly idiosyncratic type of pottery known as the "face jug," is the focus of "Faces in Clay: The Grotesque Jug Tradition."