Face Jugs - Auction Highlights

$177,000

Exceptional Twenty-Gallon Stoneware Face Cooler by William Wilbur, Ironton, Ohio, circa 1870

WORLD AUCTION RECORDS: AMERICAN FACE VESSEL & OHIO STONEWARE!

07-20-2019

$144,000

Stoneware Face Jug, Edgefield District, South Carolina, c1855-1880

WORLD AUCTION RECORD: AMERICAN FACE JUG

03-31-2023

$120,000

Anna Pottery / January 15, 1885 Grover Cleveland Pitcher

08-05-2022

$100,300

Important Stoneware Face Harvest Jug, Edgefield District, SC, circa 1845-1855, w/ Accompanying Stereocard

07-22-2017

$92,000

Edgefield, South Carolina, Stoneware Pottery Face Jug, circa 1860

07-18-2015

$86,250

Important Remmey Family, Philadelphia Stoneware Face Jug

03-14-2015

$82,600

Rare and Important Mustached Face Harvest Jug, Edgefield District, SC, circa 1845-70

03-23-2019

$70,800

Large-Sized Edgefield District, SC Face Jug, circa 1845-65

07-21-2018

$70,800

Important Alkaline-Glazed Stoneware Face Cup, Edgefield District, SC origin, circa 1855-1870

07-20-2019

$63,250

Stoneware Face Pitcher, attrib. Samuel Bell, Winchester or Strasburg, VA, c1840

WORLD AUCTION RECORD, BELL FAMILY POTTERY

03-03-2012

$60,000

Stoneware Face Jug, Lewis Miles's Stony Bluff Manufactory, Horse Creek Valley, Edgefield District, SC, c1855-1865

04-08-2022

$59,000

Stoneware Storefront Devil Face Jug, Stamped "Brown Pottery / Arden, N C / Hand-Made", Davis P. Brown, c1941

WORLD AUCTION RECORD: NORTH CAROLINA STONEWARE

07-22-2017

$53,100

Important Edgefield, South Carolina, Stoneware Pottery Face Jug

11-03-2018

$52,900

Rock Mills, Alabama School Stoneware "Preacher Man" Figure

07-19-2014

$48,000

Arie Meaders Face Jug, circa 1958-59

WORLD AUCTION RECORD: MEADERS POTTERY

11-10-2023

$47,200

Exceptional Edgefield, SC Stoneware Face Jug, c1845-60

03-25-2017

$47,200

Diminutive Edgefield, South Carolina, Stoneware Face Jug w/ Important Provenance

07-22-2017

$46,000

Edgefield District, SC Stoneware Harvest Face Jug, circa 1860-70

10-17-2015

$43,125

Anna Pottery Stoneware Railroad Conductor Pitcher

10-25-2014

$42,000

Edgefield District, South Carolina, Stoneware Face Jug, c1845-65

03-31-2023

$41,300

Edgefield District, SC Stoneware Face Cup

07-22-2017

$41,300

Anna Pottery Salt-Glazed Stoneware "Shoo Fly" Jug

WORLD AUCTION RECORD, ANNA POTTERY SHOO FLY JUG

10-28-2017

$35,400

Edgefield, South Carolina Stoneware Pottery Face Jug

07-22-2017

$34,220

Stoneware Pitcher with Hand-Modeled Figure of a Railroad Conductor, Inscribed "Uncle Dan / full on ten Cents", Signed "Anna Pottery / Anna Ills / 1884"

03-24-2018

$33,600

Large-Sized Alabama Stoneware Face Jug

04-09-2021

$33,600

Anna Pottery Stoneware Cider Cooler ("Granger / Cider / Press / 1776") Signed and Dated "Kirkpatrick / Anna, Ill / 1877"

11-18-2022

$33,350

Edgefield, South Carolina, Stoneware Face Jug, possibly Lewis Miles' Stoney Bluff Manufactory, circa 1860-70

10-17-2015

$33,040

Miles Mill, Edgefield, SC Stoneware Face Jug

03-25-2017

$32,400

Northeastern Redware Face Flask, first half 19th century

11-10-2023

$32,400

Stoneware Face Jug by Arie Meaders at the Cheever Meaders Pottery, Cleveland, GA, c1956-69

04-05-2024

$31,200

Miles Mill, Edgefield District, SC, Face Jug, c1865-75

03-21-2020

$30,680

Face Jug from Lewis Miles' Stoney Bluff Manufactory, Edgefield, South Carolina, c1855-70

07-20-2019

$30,000

T. CRAFTS & CO. / NASHUA, New Hampshire SLOOP ORANGE Face Pitcher, Martin Crafts, circa 1840

08-05-2022

$28,320

Large-Sized Edgefield, South Carolina, Face Jug

10-26-2019

$27,600

Redware Face Jug, possibly New Jersey origin, October 5, 1844

08-06-2021

$24,000

Ernest Galloway, Paducah, Kentucky Stoneware Face Jug

12-04-2020

$23,000

Figural Stoneware Bank, attrib. J.L. Matthews Pottery, Rock Mills, Alabama, circa 1890-1910

10-17-2015

$21,600

Attrib. Cheever and Lanier Meaders Pottery Face Jug, Cleveland, GA, circa 1967

04-05-2024

$20,700

Stoneware Face Harvest Jug attrib. John Dollings at the Stine Pottery, White Cottage, Ohio, c1870

07-18-2015

$20,400

Cheever and Lanier Meaders Face Jug, Cleveland, GA, circa 1967

11-10-2023

$19,200

Attrib. Cheever Meaders, Cleveland, GA, Face Jug second quarter 20th century

04-09-2021

$18,880

Miles Mill, Edgefield, South Carolina Face Jug

03-25-2017

$18,880

Edgefield, South Carolina, Stoneware Pottery Face Jug

03-24-2018

$18,000

Attrib. Ernest H. Galloway, Paducah, Kentucky Stoneware Face Jug

04-05-2024

$16,800

Anna Pottery Shoo Fly Flask

03-21-2020

$16,800

"Lanier Meaders / Cleveland / Ga" Early Period Face Jug

08-06-2021

$16,675

Large Stoneware Face Harvest Jug, possibly Alabama

07-19-2014

$15,600

Southern Stoneware Face Harvest Jug, possibly Alabama, fourth quarter 19th century

08-05-2022

$13,800

Figural Stoneware Bank / Face Vessel, New York State

11-06-2010

$13,800

Rare Edgefield, South Carolina, Alkaline-Glazed Stoneware Face Jug, Miles Mill Pottery, circa 1870

10-22-2016

$12,650

Virginia Stoneware Cobalt-Decorated Face Jug

07-19-2014

$12,650

Large-Sized Redware African-American Preacher Bank

07-18-2015

$12,650

Anna Pottery Stoneware Indian Face Pipe, "found in the Lava beds of California by Kirkpatrick of Anna Pottery"

03-19-2016

$12,000

Tennessee Stoneware Face Bottle: "Try Me"

07-26-2024

$11,800

Alabama Stoneware Figural Jug, circa 1850-75

10-28-2017

$11,500

Large-Sized Stoneware Seated Monkey Figure, Southern or Midwestern origin, c1885

10-17-2015

$10,800

Stoneware Face Jug attrib. Ernest Galloway, Paducah, KY, early 20th century

03-31-2023

$10,200

Stereoview featuring an Edgefield Face Jug from "AIKEN AND VICINITY.," J.A. Palmer, Aiken, SC

11-18-2022

$9,775

Stoneware Face Harvest Jug, probably Barrow County, Georgia, c1880-1900

10-17-2015

$9,200

Brown Family, Atlanta, GA Stoneware Face Jug, Inscribed "Gon But Not forgotten"

03-19-2016

$8,400

Remmey (Philadelphia) Stoneware Double Face Harvest Jug

12-04-2020

$8,260

Painted Stoneware Face Jug with Bail Handle, North Wilkesboro, NC origin, circa 1925

03-24-2018

$7,800

Large-Sized Redware African-American Preacher Bank, probably Southern or Mid-Atlantic

03-31-2023

$7,800

Lanier Meaders, Cleveland, GA, circa 1960s Face Jug

11-10-2023

$7,800

"JOHN'S / LAST POT," Double Face Devil Jug by John Meaders, 1998

07-26-2024

$7,475

Southern Stoneware (probably TN) Face Jug

11-03-2007

$7,200

Lanier Meaders, Cleveland, Georgia Face Jug w/ Rock Teeth, circa 1969

04-08-2022

$7,200

Harvey Reinhardt, Vale, NC, Face Jug, second quarter 20th century

11-10-2023

$7,080

B.B. CRAIG / VALE, N.C. Oversized Stoneware Face Jug

07-22-2017

$7,080

Otto Brown, Bethune, SC, or possibly NC or GA Stoneware Face Jug

07-21-2018

$6,600

Attrib. Arie Meaders, Cleveland, GA, Face Jug, circa 1956-1967

07-26-2024

$6,325

Edgefield, SC Stoneware Face Jug w/ Protruding Tongue

03-19-2016

$5,900

B. B. CRAIG / VALE, NC Blue Stoneware Face Jug

07-20-2019

$5,700

Lanier Meaders, Cleveland, GA, circa 1965 Stoneware Face Jug

11-18-2022

$5,700

"Gon But Not forgotten" Stoneware Face Jug, attrib. Brown Family, Atlanta, Georgia

04-05-2024

$5,700

Early Period Lanier Meaders Pottery Face Jug, Cleveland, GA, c1960s

04-05-2024

$5,463

"William Peirce," "W.P. / 1830" Ring Flask / Face Vessel

07-19-2014

$5,400

Lanier Meaders Devil Jug (Cleveland, GA, circa 1970)

08-21-2020

$5,400

Stoneware Face Jug w/ Cigar, attributed to Otto Brown

08-04-2023

$5,400

"Marion / Virginia / 1884" Face Jug by Evan Javan Brown at the Choctaw Indian Pottery, c1930

08-04-2023

$5,400

Meaders Family Face Jug w/ Rock Eyes and Teeth, early 20th century

08-04-2023

$5,310

Attrib. Lanier Meaders, Cleveland, GA Early-Period Stoneware Face Jug w/ Rock Eyes and Teeth,

07-22-2017

$5,100

Stoneware Face Harvest Jug, Northeastern U.S. or Ohio origin, circa 1830-1860

08-21-2020

$5,100

Hilton Pottery, Marion, North Carolina Face Jug, circa 1935

04-08-2022

$5,100

John Meaders Pottery Double Face Devil Jug, late 20th century

04-05-2024

$4,945

Wilkesboro, North Carolina Pottery Face Jug

05-19-2007

$4,800

Lanier Meaders Double Face Jug (Cleveland, GA, circa 1970)

08-21-2020

$4,800

Conjoined Pair of Lanier Meaders Face Jugs

12-04-2020

$4,800

BROWN POTTERY, Arden NC (circa 1930) Stoneware Face Jug

11-19-2021

$4,800

Otto Brown March 22, 1971 Face Jug, "Finished by [his] wife"

04-05-2024

$4,600

Anna Pottery Abraham Lincoln "Death Mask," Dated 1877

11-03-2012

$4,500

Attrib. Ernest Galloway, Paducah, Kentucky Stoneware Face Jug

04-05-2024

$4,313

Lanier Meaders, Cleveland, Georgia Double Face Jug

11-02-2013

$4,200

Lanier Meaders Stoneware Double Face Jug w/ U.S. Presidential Provenance

07-26-2024

$4,200

"Edwin Meaders / 5-18-1994" Double Face Jug w/ Blue Glaze

07-26-2024

$4,080

O. Henry Pottery (Evan Javan Brown, Sr., Valdese, NC) Stoneware Face Jug

03-21-2020

$3,900

Alabama Stoneware Face Jug, possibly Carbon Hill

04-05-2024

$3,600

Lanier Meaders Double Face Jug

08-21-2020

$3,600

Attrib. Lanier Meaders, Cleveland, GA Early Period Face Jug

04-09-2021

$3,600

BROWN POTTERY (Arden, NC, circa 1930) Stoneware Face Jug

08-05-2022

$3,540

"Brown Pottery / Arden, N.C. / Handmade" Devil Face Jug

03-24-2018

$3,540

Lanier Meaders Devil Jug, Cleveland Georgia, circa 1975

07-20-2019

$3,480

BROWN POTTERY Face Jug w/ Rutile in the Glaze

12-04-2020

$3,480

BROWN POTTERY (Arden, NC, circa 1930) Face Jug

11-10-2023

$3,360

Lanier Meaders, Cleveland, GA Face Jug (circa late 1960's-1970)

12-04-2020

$3,186

Lanier Meaders, Cleveland, GA Early-Period Stoneware Pottery Face Jug

07-22-2017

$3,120

E.J. BROWN (Evan Javan Brown, Sr., Arden, NC) Face Jug

11-10-2023

$3,068

Rare Glazed Stoneware Face Jug, probably Brown Family, Atlanta, GA, late 19th or early 20th century

10-28-2017

$3,068

Lanier Meaders (Cleveland, Georgia) Face, circa 1970

07-20-2019

$3,000

B.B. CRAIG / VALE, N.C. Stoneware Weeping Face Vase

04-09-2021

$3,000

Edwin Meaders Blue-Glazed Stoneware Face Jug, Cleveland, Georgia

04-05-2024