Face Vessel
Face Vessel
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- Description
- The earliest face vessels known to have been produced by white southern potters were probably not made until the end of the 1800s. White potters working in the Edgefield area in the mid-1800s may have seen similar vessels made by African American potters who were enslaved, and taken the idea with them as they moved out of South Carolina.
- Like many southern pottery families, the Brown family encompasses a line of potters generations long. The Browns began making pottery in west-central Georgia by the mid-1800s before migrating east to the Atlanta area after the Civil War. The family spread
- from there to North and South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, and Texas. This piece, on the left, may have been produced by the Brown family of Georgia in the early 1900s.
- This face vessel came to the Museum as part of the Van Alstyne Collection of American Folk Art. Eleanor and Mabel Van Alstyne collected more than 300 examples of American folk art over a period of about 40 years.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- vessel, face
- date made
- early 1900s
- maker
- Brown Pottery
- place made
- United States: Georgia
- Physical Description
- ceramic, stoneware, coarse (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 16 cm x 14.7 cm; 6 5/16 in x 5 13/16 in
- ID Number
- CE.65.1067
- catalog number
- 65.1067
- accession number
- 256396
- Credit Line
- The Eleanor and Mabel Van Alstyne Collection of American Folk Art
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Ceramics and Glass
- Cultures & Communities
- Domestic Furnishings
- Face Vessels
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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