Face Jug, ca. 1860–70, Made in Edgefield District, South Carolina, United States, American, Alkaline-glazed stoneware, 7 x 5 x 5

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Face Jug, ca. 1860–70, Made in Edgefield District, South Carolina, United States, American, Alkaline-glazed stoneware, 7 x 5 x 5 1/2 in. ( x x 14 cm), Ceramics, John Lewis Miles Pottery (1868–75), Face jugs were made by African American slaves and freedmen working in potteries in the Edgefield District of South Carolina, an area of significant stoneware production in the nineteenth century. The distinctive features of the jugs, notably the kaolin inserts for the eyes, relate in style and material to ritualistic objects of the Congo and Angola region of western Africa, whence many slaves in South Carolina descended

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