Instagram Archive | |

loading image

Folk pottery is still made today in North Carolina and Georgia. The southern tradition has emphasized high-fired stoneware vessels that could withstand rough usage on the farm. Alkaline stoneware glazes are distinctly regional, with wood ashes or lime mixed in a solution to help melt the other ingredients-usually sand and clay. These glazes turn green or brown depending on the firing conditions and can have a runny texture. They were developed in South Carolina around 1815, perhaps inspired by published accounts of similar high-firing Chinese glazes. The face jug made by Georgia's Lanier Meaders represents a later-twentieth-century shift in emphasis from utilitarian farm wares to more decorative pieces for collectors, a trend that continues today. Jugs are courtesy of the Atlanta History Center and courtesy of John Burrison. See "#AmericanFolkArt: An Enduring Legacy", on display, pre-security, in the International Terminal. http://bit.ly/AmericanFolkArt This image was posted on January 26, 2018.

Similar Instagram posts

Folk pottery is still made today in North Carolina and Georgia. This image was posted on January 26, 2018. #americanfolkart #folkart #american #history #americana #antique #vintage #antiquefolkart #vintagefolkart #folkarts #folkartantiques #folkartantique #pottery #stonewear #ceramics #laniermeaders

Thomas Chandler and other potters of Edgefield, South Carolina, often mixed different clays together to achieve the proper balance and ground their clays in a pug mill to obtain the right consistency for turning. This image was posted on November 19, 2021. #stonewarestories #thomaschandler #edgefield #ceramics

Marguerite Wildenhain went to work at the Municipal School of Fine and Applied Arts in 1926 where she headed the school’s ceramics department for seven years. This image was posted on January 20, 2016. #pondfarm

Shortly after arriving in Edgefield, South Carolina, Thomas Chandler mastered the use of local kaolin clay and alkaline glazes, creating beautiful pots that exhibited a celadon-like gloss surface similar to those produced in China and Korea. This image was posted on October 22, 2021. #stonewarestories #ceramics #pottery

Despite owning at least three potteries in South Carolina, Collin Rhodes likely never worked as a potter himself. This image was posted on September 16, 2021. #stonewarestories #ceramics #edgefield