April 25, 2024
Walter Fleming Double Handle 2-3 Gallon Face Jug, Statesville, NC-Catawba Valley
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DescriptionThis is a wonderful Walter P. Fleming Folk Pottery Decorated Face Jug! It has a terrific green tobacco spit glaze with cobalt blue pupil eyes and blue glass that drips off both of the handles and the lip. This is done by putting a piece of broken glass on the pottery when it is fired and it melts; creating this great "run" design. Along with having TWO handles, this jug is also decorated with the classic dot, straight and wavy line decoration not only around the shoulder but also in the middle and on the bottom of this fine jug. This incising adds a lot of character. I was told by Walter himself that he uses a spoon to create the wavy design, a fork to create the lines and the end of an old wooden spool of thread to create the dots. Walter always employs china teeth. This face jug measures approximately 12" tall and is 7" wide ear to ear. It is signed Walter P. Fleming on the bottom. Walter Fleming began potting in 1986. He studied under Burton "B. B." Craig, the well-known Catawba Valley potter who shared with Walter the traditional Catawba Valley techniques of forms and glazes that is realized in this jug. Walter digs his clay on his property off the historic Third Creek in Iredell County, North Carolina; a rich, deep red Carolina clay. An interesting fact about Walter is that he turns his pots counter-clockwise due
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