Face Vessel
date: label: date made
content: early 1900s
name: label: maker
content: Brown Pottery
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
label: Description
content: 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
label: Description
content: 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.
label: Description
content: 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Georgia
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content: Home and Community Life: Ceramics and Glass
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content: Face Vessels
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Eleanor and Mabel Van Alstyne American Folk Art Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CE.65.1067
label: catalog number
content: 65.1067
label: accession number
content: 256396
objectType: label: Object Name
content: vessel, face
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ceramic, stoneware, coarse (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 cm x 14.7 cm; 6 5/16 in x 5 13/16 in