JUG
1826 - 1860
Attributed to the Cain family of potters
Sullivan County, Tennessee
Lead-glazed earthenware
HOA: 15 3/4", DIA: 7 1/2", CIR: 37 1/2"
MESDA Purchase Fund (acc. 5460)
Originally published by Roddy Moore in his groundbreaking Antiques Magazine article on Great Road pottery, this monumental jug is a masterpiece of the manganese, splotch-decorated wares made along the Tennessee-southwest Virginia border. It is evocatively inscribed in the clay, "John Wolfe", "1826", and "True Blue."
