Southern Folk Art Pottery Is Selling

Pottery collectors recently paid a wide range of prices for the distinctive Southern folk art “face jugs” and animals made by generations of families. The folk art pottery in the sale is relatively new, designed in the last 50 years or so, compared to folk art 100 or more years old that usually attracts collectors. […]

Stoneware Brings in Amazing Prices

American stoneware is a popular folk art collectible even though it was everyday ware. It was fired at a high temperature so it could be used for crocks, churns, jugs and jars. A recent Crocker Farm auction in Maryland had 382 lots of stoneware and redware. An extraordinary $480,000 was paid for an 1846 7-gallon […]