Folk art / pottery

[apalachinvintageandpicked]

When did folk art, clay, become a race to see who could make the stupidest face jug?

And this is an art? To me it looks like untalented kids trying to make a buck. I love Georgia Blizzard's works; there, there is a narrative.  Or at the minimum, interesting techniques. 

[coast_of_maine_antiques]

A long time ago. I think face jug pottery is very regional since up here in New England they are not very popular but in the Carolinas, OMG, there are vintage artists whos face pot pottery work is in the hundreds. Even here on ebay.

[patd3283]

I'm in Georgia.  We, like the Carolinas, have a long history of producing face jugs - from the early 1800s.  Some are funny, some are downright ugly and others are beautiful.  It is all in the eyes of the beholder.  I have collected them along with 'siggie' (signature) jugs and memory jugs for years.    As stated above, some can be very expensive.