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The Old-Ozarks-Frontier phase, comprising the period of the 1830s to the 1870s, focusing on settlement and homesteading, with a continuing tradition of log construction extending to the 1930s. The Cosmopolitan-Ozarks phase, from circa 1895 to 1950, in which a more urban style was used for housing, with large barns and the appearance of ...
Jerry Dolyn Brown (November 9, 1942 – March 4, 2016) was an American folk artist and traditional stoneware pottery maker who lived and worked in Hamilton, Alabama.He was a 1992 recipient of a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts [1] [2] and a 2003 recipient of the Alabama Folk Heritage Award. [3]
A face jug is a jug pottery that depicts a face. There are examples in the pottery of ancient Greece , and that of Pre-Columbian America. Early European examples date from the 13th century, and the German stoneware Bartmann jug was a popular later medieval and Renaissance form.
Love and War jug, Samuel Alcock & Co., c. 1850 Samuel Alcock (1799–1848) was an English pottery manufacturer who operated as Samuel Alcock & Co in Burslem , Staffordshire from 1828 to 1859. They were especially noted for "picture jugs" modelled and moulded in relief in various ceramic materials, a popular type of object in these years.
The statue is also the official emblem of the four-state Ozark Frontier Trail. [33] [34] When the State Quarter for Oklahoma was to be issued in 2008, there was a statewide call for proposals to be sent to the Mint for final design work. From the thousands of designs received, five were sent along to the mint.
The Crambeck Ware industry is one of two major pottery industries located in the Yorkshire region during the Roman period [4] (the other being Huntcliff ware).Very little Crambeck Ware is found south of the Humber, [4] though it does advance North to the frontier.
McDade Pottery was the largest, longest-lived and most prolific of a series of potteries that manufactured utilitarian stoneware in Bastrop County, Texas, beginning in the 19th century. The pottery is the most successful business ever to exist in the town of McDade.
In 1978 he and his mother, Arie Meaders, were honorees of the Library of Congress with Meaders Pottery Day. [5] He was a recipient of a 1983 National Heritage Fellowship , the United States government's highest honor in the folk and traditional arts, awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts , [ 9 ] and was the recipient of the Governor's ...