A ceramic jug found in Germantown, PA turns out to be an example of a significant 19th century protective relic and piece of art — a face jug — created by African American slaves and freedmen ...

"The depiction of camels on the vessel highlights the importance of the animal, which was a central means of land transportation around 1,200 years ago." ...

This distinctive type of ceramic face vessel first appeared in the American South in the mid-1800s. Jugs such as these are attributed to a small number of black slaves working as potters in the ...

The jug itself is of black-glazed pottery and although an everyday item it still shows a careful degree of attention with a small sculpted head of a god on the handle and the decorative striping ...

Yet the pieces are more commonly associated with the British Dartmouth Pottery, which first gave the jug its fish-shaped design. A special pair of gurgling jugs was crafted in 1958 for ...

but the Sarjeant has had an equally strong commitment to the work of ceramic artists, like Ann Verdcourt, Ross Mitchell-Anyon, Rick Rudd, Andrea du Chatenier, to name a few.” Jugs are now less ...

A ceramic jug found in Germantown, PA turns out to be an example of a significant 19th century protective relic and piece of art — a face jug — created by African American slaves and freedmen ...