Another excellent example of circa 1920s to 1930s Chinese blue glazed stoneware made at Jugtown in Seagrove, North Carolina sold yesterday on eBay; this Han Dynasty style vase was listed with a seller in Newport News, Virginia, unlike the other objects I wrote about last week that sold out of California. The glaze on this vase is particularly really good with an equal mixture of blue and red, whereas the base is unusually stamped twice "JUGTOWN WARE."
According to an academic thesis written by Mary Jean Crawford for the University of North Carolina in 1962, titled, Jugtown Pottery: History and Design, “When the present Jugtown first began operations in 1917, its output was almost exclusively the traditional and utilitarian shapes. But some years later, Tiffany Studios in New York, a customer of Jugtown Pottery, suggested that they make some decorative pieces.”
Chinese pottery found in museums and libraries in New York City, especially the Metropolitan Museum of Art, served as inspiration, with an emphasis of the pottery made during the Han, Tang and Sung dynasties. Artist Jacques Busbee (1870-1947) and Jugtown potter Ben Owen (1904-1983) brought these unfamiliar shapes to North Carolina, and ancient pottery made in China, Persia and Korea provided them with motivation.
Crawford additionally says, “The Chinese blue or blue-green glaze was Jugtown’s most prized glaze and, according to one authority, some of the best pieces of Jugtown Pottery, usually the Chinese translations, had the Chinese blue glaze. Mr Busbee mixed this glaze, and after his death, his wife Juliana Busbee (1876-1962) requested that, in memory of her husband, the blue-green glaze not be used on Jugtown Pottery. Ben Owen said only Mr Busbee knew the formula for this glaze.”
Nevertheless, this Han vase sold for $1,236 plus sales tax and shipping fees.
Circa 1920s-1930s Han Dynasty Style Stoneware Vase Made at Jugtown
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