Lot #: 111
Price Realized: $720.00
($600 hammer, plus 20% buyer's premium)
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Alkaline-Glazed Stoneware Face Jug, Signed "Lanier Meaders," Cleveland, GA, circa 1985, ovoid jug with hand-modeled and applied clay face including kaolin eyes with cobalt-slip pupils, ears, nose, chin, and open mouth with kaolin teeth. Surface covered in a mottled olive alkaline glaze. Underside incised with Lanier Meaders signature. As-made condition with an in-the-firing loss to proper left eyelid and some in-the-firing crazing to underside. H 9 1/2".
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