![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.](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/swirl-793x1030.png)
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.