This is another example of pottery from Jugtown, Seagrove, North Carolina that I recently discovered - the twentieth century bowl is modeled after objects manufactured during the Ming Dynasty in China and decorated in a frog skin green glaze. The base is impressed "JUGTOWN WARE."
Extensive research was done by Jacques Busbee (1870-1947), the original owner of the Jugtown Pottery, who created many of the colors for the business. Pots glazed in frog skin glaze are coated with the same glaze as seen in the pottery’s Teadust glaze, only Frogskin is fired in the third or fourth chamber of the wood kiln, where salt was added at the very end of a firing. The sodium in the salt reacts the way bleach works on clothing—it bleaches the iron-rich glaze and creates an olive green to mustard colored finish, with a glossy surface. Historically, many of the potters in the Seagrove area became aware of a natural clay from Albany, New York (known as Albany slip) that could be used as a glaze. They began to use this natural clay as a glaze, throwing salt into the kiln at the very end of a firing in order to get the aptly named “frog skin” green-to-mustard color and glossy surface.
A Green Glazed Ming Bowl from Jugtown, Seagrove, North Carolina
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