Face jug by Charles P. Ferguson, Jackson County, ca. 1900, unglazed except for Albany slip highlighting hair and eyes. At
Gillsville, Charlie Ferguson made Georgia's earliest known face jugs, a southern tradition first practiced by white and slave
potters of Edgefield District, South Carolina. His brother-in-law, William J. Hewell, passed this tradition to White County's
Cheever Meaders, father of Lanier Meaders.
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