"Monkey" jug, Stewart County, 1975, salt glaze and Albany slip. D. X. Gordy built and operated Westville Pottery, where one
of his apprentices made this piece. Gordy modeled Westville Pottery, located in the living history museum of Westville, on
the shops of Jugtown, where his father was raised. A type of water jug for field use, the monkey jug harks back to Africa
and Mediterranean Europe.
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