Lee Love on sun 5 oct 08
Speaking of lowfire functional, check out this old American beauty
that sold for $63,000! Has extruded handles.
http://togeika.multiply.com/journal
Lowe and other potters were Union sympathizers. Some were hung.
A recently discovered "redware" pottery jar by 19th century Greene
County potter John Alexander Lowe set a price record for Tennessee
pottery during a Sept. 27 sale at Case Antiques Auction in Knoxville.
The winning bidder said she paid a total of $63,000 for the rare
earthenware jar, doing so to prevent it from leaving the state.
Lowe was an associate of the "bridge burners," a group of Union
sympathizers who were hanged by Confederate authorities for burning
the railroad bridge over Lick Creek in Mohawk at the outset of the
Civil War in 1861.
Below is a link to one of the potters who were hung by the Confederates:
http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/3545601
Christopher Alexander Haun (1821-1861), Greene County, Tennessee. Haun
was a Union sympathizer during the Civil War and participated in
burning a Confederate railroad bridge (Lick Creek) in Greene County,
TN. In 1861, Confederate forces captured Christopher Haun and put him
to death by hanging.
And last but not least, modern potters in the same tradition:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/ayumihorie
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Lee Love in Minneapolis
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