a challenge #114...This is a face jug also called an ugly jug...guess you can see why!:> We call our face jug Dave...hes almost a member of the family always sitting in a place of honor & safety because despite his ugliness hes fairly valuable. He was made by Lanier Meaders back in the 70s. The glaze is called tobacco spit...a strange combination of brown with black. His teeth and eyes are made from a flat white kaolin clay. If he had rock or china teeth which some of them do he would be worth twice as much. We love our Dave anyway and dress him up from time to time..this is Dave ready for the Braves baseball season!
revived the art of face jugs supposedly started by a slave named Dave in Edgefield County South Carolina. Edgefield is about 25 miles from where i live...if this were a real Dave face jug it could be worth more than $100000....BUT our dave is a modern example made in the mountains of north Georgia. Heres a picture of another even uglier one than ours...and I see its gone up in value!! YEAH!
