red Devil Face Jug # 1

Creepy Clown #2 Face Jug

My BP Oil Spill Face Jug

Aztec Warrior Face Jug with custom arrow spear and clothing

Big Bad Bass Face Jug, The minnow in his mouth comes out and allows you to pour out the liquid through his mouth

Jamaician Rastafarin

Patina Gargoyle

The Clowns special order for Brett in Georgia

Special order copper iriscent pig Face Jug

Little Dragon popping out of an egg

Swamp Witch Face Jug

The Horned Troll

Scary Goldfish Face Jug

The Lizard Face Jug

Creepy Clown #4 This one was my favorite clown

Raku Fired Red Devil

Franky & mini me Franky

Rat & Snake Face Jug

The Noid, one of my first face jugs, now owned by my best friend from high school, and her husband Carol & Nick

Devil #2 with Wisconsin Timber rattler Snake 'The Blue Eyed Devil'

The Big Clown

clown #9 Four layers of glaze on him to give the crawling skin effect.

New years Demon Baby 2010 (check out the babies hands)

Creepy Clown #5, older and balding! LOL

My clown for the face jug swap at Big Rapids, MI Clay Art & fire Festival June 6, 2010

The copper Jester

Wicked Fire Clown, my meanest clown to date. Thank you Barbie (one of my best buyers on Ebay) glad he is in your house instead of mine!

My biggest clown to date, 18 inches tall! The small one is 13 inches tall, Specail order for Brett, copied from Creepy Klowns from outer space. Thank you Brett

Red/Black Devil mini face jug with new owner in Big Rapids, MI Clay Art & Fire June 2010

The wizard face jug with his own lantern

History of Face Jugs

Between 1810 and 1865, an abundance of functional pottery was produced in the remote Edgefield Potteries in South Carolina and sold to neighboring counties and states. Edgefield Potteries was worked in part by artisan slaves who turned the pots, pushed the wheels, carried the pottery and loaded the kilns. In their free time, some of the artisans made pottery of their own choice. Many of them chose to make jugs and pots now known as Face Jugs. These were often stoneware jugs modeled in the shape of human faces. Most were alkaline glazed stoneware in simple, earthy tones. Though there are many gaps in historical data regarding the making, use and meaning of the face jug pottery, there is no doubt that the vessels were original and functional artistic expressions.  Most of the early skilled potters who made Face Jugs have not been identified by name. Researchers speculate that the vessels carried a religious significance, as they were found on gravesites. It was thought that the jug filled with corn liquor would keep the evil spirits from their loved ones. In later years of the 19th century, the jugs were used to hide moonshine from the owner’s children and the local law enforcement.  In the 1950’s face jugs were brought back by the Meaders family in Southern Georgia.  They jugs were considered Southern Folk Art.  Lanier Meaders, considered the most famous Southern Folk Art Face Jug Potter, took over the pottery shop from his father in 1967.  Lanier made over 10,000 jugs in his lifetime.  These early jugs are now selling for $ 30,000 and up each piece.  The Meaders family is still active in the face Jug making.  Face Jugs now are widely collected in the southern United States, valued highly by collectors they range from amusing, to scary and grotesque.  Usually the scarier and uglier they are, the more valued they are.  Individual artists' will either coil build or throw the jugs on the wheel and then alter them by sculpting them to create their own personalized representation of the face or animal.  Most jugs will have porcelain teeth and eyes or rock teeth and eyes following in the footsteps of the original jugs.   If you would like to know more about face jugs, look on ebay under Southern Folk Art/Face jugs, to see the latest potters creations.  To look up the history of face jugs, one of the best known sites I can recommend is to go to http://franksullivanpottery.com/FaceJugHistory.aspx,    

I currently am not creating face jugs, l will consider commission work if you contact me. thanks for your
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