Politician Jug
- Clay
- 11 inches
Photo by Chuck Rosenak from Smithsonian Website
"At the age of twelve, Michael began working at the Wilson pottery near his home, learning the craft from Jimmy and Wade Wilson Mark and Arlin Hewell and Javin Brown. He gained further experience in the production of hand-thrown garden wares at Craven's Pottery in Gillsville.
In 1985 he opened his own operation in a converted chicken house, and with the artistic contributions of his brother, Melvin (who had also worked at Wilson's) Michael has developed a line of painstakingly decorated, ash glazed jugs that expand on the older traditions of such potters as Lanier Meaders.
These include Indian-head jugs, functional forms with relief-carved country scenes, and realistic snake jugs and free-standing rattlesnakes, their scales picked out with plastic drinking straws."*
Excerpt from John Burrison's Brothers in Clay: The Story of Georgia Folk Pottery
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