July Issue 2002
Charleston Museum Offers Summer Exhibition Focused on Traditional Southern Pottery
The Charleston Museum in Charleston, SC, is hosting an original exhibition of traditional southern pottery, with examples from the Museum's permanent collection ranging from prehistoric and historic Native American work to the stately pots and jars of the Edgefield District. The exhibit, From Clay to Kiln: Traditional Southern Pottery, will be on view through Sept. 2, 2002, and includes earthenware, stoneware, redware, and colonoware. Several fascinating Northern pieces will be included to serve as contrast to those created in South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia, the primary states represented in the exhibition.
A featured piece in the From Clay to Kiln exhibition will be a rare and unique face jug on public display for the first time. The circa 1850 jug was dredged from the bottom of the Ashley River close to Charleston. It is stoneware with an alkaline and iron slip glaze and features kaolin teeth and eyes. According to acting Curator of History Grahame Long, "it is one of the largest face jugs ever to have been crafted and the only known example of an iron slip-decorated face. We believe it most likely was made at the Rhodes Factory in the Edgefield district of South Carolina"
The Charleston Museum, founded in 1773, is America's first museum. Holding the most extensive collection of South Carolina cultural and scientific collections in the nation, it also owns two National Historic Landmark houses, the Heyward-Washington House (1772) and the Joseph Manigault House (1803), as well as the Dill Sanctuary, a 580-acre wildlife preserve.
For further information check our SC Institutional Gallery listings or call the Museum at 843/722-2996.
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