Jar: For Salt, Meat, or Lard

c. 1939

Margaret Gordon

Artist, American, 1910 - 1996

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor, graphite, and pen and ink on paperboard

  • Credit Line

    Index of American Design

  • Dimensions

    overall: 38 x 28 cm (14 15/16 x 11 in.)
    Original IAD Object: 27 1/2" High 78 1/2" Circum(max) 41" Circum(base) 18 3/4"Dia(inside mth)

  • Accession

    1943.8.7397

Artwork history & notes

Inscriptions

verso: center in ink: -Jar for Salt Meat or Lard- / Charleston Museum, Charleston, S.C. / Made in 1859 at Stoney Bluff or /Miles Mill (Louis Miles Pottery) in / in Aiken County, S.C. by by Dave & Badd- / ler, negro slave. The inscription / in boxes sccompanying the painting / are the copied handwriting of one of / the slaves who scrawled the words / with a pencil into the surface of the / jar between handles before glazing. / Height - 27 1/2" / Widest Cir. (just below / handles) - 78 1/2" / Bottom Cir. - 41" / Diam. inside mouth of jar) - 18 3/4"

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