Here is another really good example of twentieth century Jugtown Pottery from Seagrove, North Carolina that I recently picked up, which is decorated in an excellent Chinese blue glaze with plenty of red in the glaze, as well.
Presumably, the form of this vase is inspired after Asian design, although I am not sure whether that inspiration came from Chinese, Japanese or Korean pottery, whereas some of the influence for the shapes used in this type of design was drawn from ancient objects displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan.
For a brief history of the business -- In 1915, Juliana (1876-1962) and Jacques Busbee (1870-1947) set up a training and sales organization for what they named Jugtown Pottery. In 1921, they built a shop at Jugtown, North Carolina, and hired Ben Owen (1904-1983) as a potter in 1923. The pottery produced handmade pottery bowls, vases, jugs, candlesticks and tablewares, all made of local red or buff-colored clay. The Busbees moved the village store where the pottery was sold to New York City. Juliana Busbee sold the New York store in 1926 and moved into a log cabin near the Jugtown Pottery. The pottery closed in 1959. It reopened in 1960 and is still working near Seagrove, North Carolina today.
Note: An article I wrote about some of our best North Carolina discoveries over the last year in New England will be published in a forthcoming issue of Antiques & Auction News.
A Good Example of Chinese Blue Glazed Pottery from Jugtown
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