Lot Essay
This form was found in Cleburne County, Alabama.
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EASTERN ALABAMA, 19TH CENTURY
Details
A GLAZED EARTHENWARE VOTIVE FIGURE
Eastern Alabama, 19th century
Molded in the form of a man with brimmed hat and hollow eyes above a body with clasped hands, all glazed with iron oxide
16in. high
Eastern Alabama, 19th century
Molded in the form of a man with brimmed hat and hollow eyes above a body with clasped hands, all glazed with iron oxide
16in. high
Literature
Discoveries in American Folk Art (New York, 1973), p. 19, no. 16.
Gordon, Masterpieces of American Folk Art (Lincroft, N.J., 1975). Reginia A. Perry, Selections of Nineteenth-Century Afro-American Art (New York, 1976), no. 16.
Vlach, The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Art (Cleveland, 1978), p. 93, fig. 90.
Gordon, Masterpieces of American Folk Art (Lincroft, N.J., 1975). Reginia A. Perry, Selections of Nineteenth-Century Afro-American Art (New York, 1976), no. 16.
Vlach, The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Art (Cleveland, 1978), p. 93, fig. 90.
Exhibited
Lincroft, New Jersey, Monmouth Museum, "Masterpieces of American Folk Art," September 30-November 29, 1975.