Lot #: 67
Estimate: $400-$600.A Note About Estimates
Minimum Bid: $75.
Possibly Unique Salt-Glazed Stoneware Jar with Elaborate Incised Inscription, Daniel Mayner at the Moses P. Harmon Pottery, Greene County, TN, 1890-1900, semi-ovoid jar with tooled shoulder and thick, semi-rounded rim, featuring the elaborate incised inscription, "Wood Hauler / to burn / Crocks / wood / hauler / Daniel Mayner / Pottertown / teamster." Surface covered in thick, light-green salt glaze. Perhaps one of the most wonderfully-inscribed pieces of Tennessee pottery known, this work serves as a bold proclamation of the pottery duties of Daniel Mayner while working for Moses P. Harmon. Exhibited: Tennessee Turned, Earthenware and Stoneware Made in East Tennessee 1800-1900, Museum of East Tennessee History, May 16-October 30, 2011. Literature: Illustrated in Wahler, Tennessee Turned, Earthenware and Stoneware Made in East Tennessee 1800-1900, Part One, cover, p. 77, fig. 83, p. 119, pl. 17, p. 205, fig. 83. According to Wahler, Mayner, along with his father and brother, hauled wood for the M.P. Harmon pottery (Wahler, p. 204). An approximately 3" x 2 3/4" flake on interior leading to a 3/4" hole with small flake on exterior, formed to convert the jar into a flowerpot. A 1 1/8" rim chip. Four in-the-firing kiln furniture marks to rim, three of which appear as chips. A 2 3/4" hairline on underside, continuing 2 1/4" diagonally up base. A 1" diagonal in-the-firing surface fissure at base, not visible on interior. H 8".
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