Jerry Brown Pottery Alabama Folk Art Face Jug- original signed- 1990s

Description: JERRYBROWN Face JUG- FOLK ART POTTER, HAMILTON ALABAMA-Signed on bottom. Measures 10 inches x 8 inches. Olive green with black mustache and blue eyes. details include a snake wrapping face, white teeth. This is an original kept in a smoke-free, humidity-free home. I prefer shipping priority to buyer given its size and value. Original Jerry Brown pottery face jars are collectibles and can be found in several museums. About the artist (from the web)Jerry Dolyn Brown was born in 1942 in Pine Springs Alabama. His parents, Horace Vincent Brown(1889-1965) and Hettie Mae Stewart Brown (1911– 1996), were both products of multi-generational pottery making families. The Browns, one of the South’s most famous pottery-making families, are usually associated with Georgia, but in fact, members of the family have also made pottery in Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Florida, and Mississippi. It is believed that Browns were potters in the late eighteenth century and possibly earlier. The Stewart established a pottery in Louisville, Mississippi after moving there from Alabama shortly after the Civil War.For a time, Brown worked as a logger in Alabama, but he returned to making hand-thrown pottery in the1980s, his true passion.In 1992,Jerry Brown was awarded the National Heritage Fellowship and currently has five pieces of pottery on exhibit in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. The Alabama State Council on the Arts awarded the Alabama Folk Heritage Award to him in 2003. Also, in 2003, the Jerry Brown Arts Festival was created in his hometown of Hamilton, a juried arts festival which has been recognized as a Top20 event in the Southeastern U.S.

Price: 500 USD

Location: New Orleans, Louisiana

End Time: 2024-12-30T15:42:00.000Z

Shipping Cost: 60 USD