Slotin plans back-to-back sales of folk pottery face jugs, quilts and African American memorabilia Feb. 10-11

Lanier Meaders face jug with double row of teeth, estimated at $1,000-$2,000 at Slotin.

BUFORD, Ga. — Folk art specialists Slotin kicks off its 2024 season with back-to-back online sales featuring folk pottery, jugs and handmade quilts on Saturday, February 10, followed by the Richard Harris African American Experience collection liquidation on Sunday, February 11. Both catalogs are now open for bidding at LiveAuctioneers.

Collectors of Lanier Meaders (1917-1998) have a whopping 20 lots from which to choose in the sale. Best known for his face jugs, Meaders inherited the Georgia pottery works his grandfather founded in 1893, which was later operated by his father Cheever. The alkaline-glazed stoneware he produced is coveted today. The top-estimated Lanier Meaders face jug, at $1,000-$2,000, features a double row of teeth in the finish, something rarely found in Meaders’ collected works.

Lanier’s brother Edwin also checks in with seven lots featuring his trademark blue rooster designs. Standing out from the blue glaze is this early ash-glaze green rooster in mint condition. Undated, the rooster is estimated at $1,000-$2,000.

Rounding out Day One is a fine selection of handmade quilts. Affairs of the Heart by Aie Rossman won first place at the AQS International Quilt Show in Nashville, Tennessee and measures 102in square. It is estimated at $800-$1,200. Elizabeth Spannring won second place at the AQS International Quilt Show and first in the Road to California Quilt Show in 2005 with Temperamental Tulips?, an 85in square machine-appliqued and -assembled design. It is similarly estimated at $800-$1,200.

At 293 lots, the African American Experience sale on February 11 is a moving historical review of Black history from slavery days to the civil rights era of the 1960s and beyond. Runaway slaves were a constant problem for their owners, as seen in this 1854 broadside offering $100 for the capture and return of a man called Henry to his owner, Alexander Spottswood Grigsby, who was a prominent Fairfax County, Virginia, businessman and slave dealer. The broadside is further distinguished by its mention of the fact that Henry escaped from the county jail along with a white inmate, a 25-year-old man named James Henry Beach, who was being held on a felony charge. It is uncommon to see broadsides from this era about black and white individuals who escaped together or at the same time. The historical artifact carries a $6,000-$8,000 estimate.

Enemies of the slave trade were known as abolitionists, and they used common imagery of a kneeling, chained slave begging for mercy as a way of identifying their organizations and eliciting sympathy for their cause. This trade sign for the Anglo American Abolitionist Society is undated but certainly from the 19th century. Made of carved wood, the 57in figural sign is estimated at $2,000-$4,000.

Also featured in the February 11 sale is a collection of 21 lots of Black Panther-related materials, with an emphasis on numerous editions of the group’s Intercommunal News Service newspapers. The highest-estimated lot, at $1,500-$2,000, is The Black Panther Manifesto, a 1970 poster issued by the Panthers during chairman Bobby Seale’s imprisonment for contempt of court as he was facing prosecution for inciting riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Featuring excellent artwork by Black Panther Emory Douglas, it focuses on an illustration of Seale strapped into an electric chair next to a lengthy statement made by Black Panther Minister of Information Eldridge Cleaver.

Lanier Meaders face jug with double row of teeth, estimated at $1,000-$2,000 at Slotin.

Lanier Meaders face jug with double row of teeth, estimated at $1,000-$2,000 at Slotin.

Edwin Meaders ash-glaze green rooster, estimated at $1,000-$2,000 at Slotin.

Edwin Meaders ash-glaze green rooster, estimated at $1,000-$2,000 at Slotin.

Aie Rossmann Affairs Of The Heart quilt, estimated at $800-$1,200 at Slotin.

Aie Rossmann Affairs Of The Heart quilt, estimated at $800-$1,200 at Slotin.

Elizabeth Spannring Temperamental Tulips? quilt, estimated at $800-$1,200 at Slotin.

Elizabeth Spannring Temperamental Tulips? quilt, estimated at $800-$1,200 at Slotin.

Jim Bunte

Jim Bunte

Jim Bunte has worked in editorial, design and the toy and auction industries for more than 30 years. He co-founded Auction Central News in 2007.

Constellation of American folk stars shine at Ledbetter’s quarterly sale Sept. 23

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GIBSONVILLE, N.C. — A wide range of American folk art comes to auction at Ledbetter Folk Art Auction’s next quarterly event, scheduled for Saturday, September 23. The sale is now available for review and bidding at LiveAuctioneers.

As usual, Ledbetter has assembled a wide variety of artists from across various media, with the focus in this sale on paintings and face jugs. Some of the names include Howard Finster (1916-2001), Myrtice West (1923-2010), Sarah Mary Taylor (1916-2000), Nikifor Krinicki (1895-1968), Jimmy Lee Sudduth (1910-2007), Benny Carter (1943-2014) and Marcia Muth (1919-2014).

Estimated at $10,000-$20,000, an early Howard Finster original, numbered 2,651 out of 47,000 or so total works and titled Man with the Facts of the Truth, is signed bottom-center and measures 42 by 24in. This item hails from the Larry Hackley collection.

From her website comes the best possible explanation for Alabama’s Myrtice West’s art: “I’d like to say I’m not much of an artist as I don’t have much of an education or training … I know also I am not a writer and unless Christ comes in, I am afraid I can’t explain how I did these pictures or why.”

Her untitled Genesis chapters 1, 2, and 3 artwork measures 37in square and takes the form of oil on canvas. It carries an estimate of $2,000-$4,000.

Sarah Mary Taylor is best known for her appliqué-heavy style of quilting, and this example from the Larry Hackley collection, measuring 81 by 84in, demonstrates why she was elevated to folk art-stardom beginning in 1970. The quilt is estimated at $2,000-$4,000.

Face jugs are one of the most recognizable of all American folk art forms, having originally been designed to keep evil spirits away from the dearly departed. A total of 46 lots appear in Ledbetter’s sale, with this Billy Ray Hussey Jack-O-Lantern God’s Light face jug, dated 2022, carrying the highest estimate at $800-$1,200.

Browse the complete catalog now and register to bid at LiveAuctioneers.
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Howard Finster, painting #2,651, ‘Man With The Facts of Truth,’ estimated at $10,000-$20,000 at Ledbetter Folk Art Auction.
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Myrtice West painting on canvas, estimated at $2,000-$4,000 at Ledbetter Folk Art Auction.
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Sarah Mary Taylor quilt, estimated at $2,000-$4,000 at Ledbetter Folk Art Auction.
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Billy Ray Hussey God’s Light face jug, estimated at $800-$1,200 at Ledbetter Folk Art Auction.
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Chinese Jun wares, Peter Max art led the pack at Michaan’s July auction series

Chinese Jun ware planter and stand, $14,760

 

Chinese Jun ware planter and stand, $14,760
Chinese Jun ware planter and stand, $14,760

ALAMEDA, Calif. – Michaan’s July 16 Gallery Auction proved to be one of the auction house’s most successful sales of the year, with a total estimated value above $400,000. The strong results were driven by several works by German-American artist Peter Max (b. 1937-), a wide selection of Chinese Jun ware and a double eagle gold coin pendant necklace.

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Marie Rogers put her own spin on Southern folk pottery

This Marie Rogers devil face jug, featuring a Bible verse, realized $900 plus the buyer’s premium in November 2013. Image courtesy of Slotin Folk Art and LiveAuctioneers.
A two-color Marie Rogers swirl face jug made $600 plus the buyer’s premium in February 2021. Image courtesy of Slotin Folk Art and LiveAuctioneers.
A two-color Marie Rogers swirl face jug made $600 plus the buyer’s premium in February 2021. Image courtesy of Slotin Folk Art and LiveAuctioneers.

NEW YORK – Southern folk pottery was largely a patriarchal tradition, with fathers passing the skill along to their sons. Up until well into the 20th century, Southern women folk potters were few and far between. Marie Gooden Rogers was a notable exception who took face jugs — a form dominated by generations of men in the Meaders family — and made it her own.

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Almost 60 works by famed Meaders clan lead Slotin’s Feb. 12 auction

Left: Lanier Meaders circa-1960s Rock Tooth Politician jug, est. $3,000-$5,000; Right: Edwin Meaders 1998 rooster decorated with green drips on a cobalt blue-painted form, est. $800-$1,200
Left: Lanier Meaders circa-1960s Rock Tooth Politician jug, est. $3,000-$5,000; Right: Edwin Meaders 1998 rooster decorated with green drips on a cobalt blue-painted form, est. $800-$1,200

BUFORD, GA. – Slotin Folk Art Auction will hold its third stand-alone pottery sale on Saturday, February 12. The 371 lots range from traditional tobacco-spit-glazed pots by extended families of makers such as the Meaders and Hewells, who handed down the craft tradition through multiple generations, to works by emerging and established studio potters. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.

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