HELEN-The Folk Pottery Museum of Northeast Georgia opens for its 2011 season on Tuesday January 18, with a special exhibition of three items of early White County pottery.
The exhibition joins the permanent displays of making and using folk pottery, and a collection of more than 150 pieces representing a 200-year heritage of folk pottery, along with a temporary exhibition of Arie Meaders decorative folk pottery of the mid-20th century.
"One of the items, dated 1843, will be a permanent donation to our collection and will become the oldest artifact of folk pottery in the Museum collection," announced Museum Director Chris Brooks. "The pickle jar is attributed to Clemonds Chandler of Mossy Creek, with the date 1843 and it includes initials said to be those of his brother-in-law Samuel P. Densmore.
Mamie Gettys Atkinson, originally from White County and a descendant of the Chandler-Densmore families has donated the jar to the Museum. The jar has an ash version of alkaline glaze known to later Meaders potters as 'Shanghai' glaze, suggesting a memory of Asian inspiration."
Jerry Satterfield of White County has loaned the Museum a miniature jug attributed to Craven family potters, dated August 1862.
On loan from Mildred Knight is a stoneware, alkaline-glazed inkwell, estimated to be mid-19th century. "It is unusual to find a miniature jug or inkwell from this period," comments Brooks, "as almost all folk pottery of that time would have been utilitarian ware, necessary for household use."
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June 30th, 2025
12:40AM
