Featured Grotesque pottery tobacco ? jar

definitely favourite find of the day

4 faced pottery jar, tobacco ?

i think ive seen this sort of thing described as grotesque ? pottery

cant find anything like it online

any ideas with age/ origin appreciated

hideous !!

 

..... you did warn me, grotesque is the word.

 

sorry aj, i think i should have put a warning in the title !!

downright sinister, but kinda cool as well

 

Odd enough to pique my interest, Chesaroo. [are those tobacco leaves on the lid?]

A reference site on ugly jugs and such:

http://www.newton.k12.in.us/art/3d/images/facejugs/

FOLK LORE ASSOCIATED WITH UGLY JUGS: Ugly jugs or mugs became an American folk art tradition beginning in the 1800s. The time and place this tradition began depends on your source, and the jugs had several purposes which could all be valid. Folk lore handed down generation to generation told that slaves made ugly jugs to distinguish the different liquids inside. Jugs with faces were for the ones you couldn't drink, like ones filled with kerosene. According to family folk lore, ugly jugs were also used by slaves as grave markers, made ugly to scare the devil away. It is also said that ugly jugs were used to keep kids out of the moonshine. They were made as scary as possible for this purpose!

 

intresting stuff, thanks for the info mate,

and i thought mine was ugly !!

 

hi inh, yeah i thought that about the hat as well

there are only 4 eyes that fit with all 4 faces

this is gonna be a hard one to figure out i think !!

 

another word of the day !!

 

I LOVE IT!!

 

cool, its definitely got something about it, kind of chucky mingled with the elephant man

 

Worthoint
Ceramic humidor face

This GUY
2013 $18



Even this GUY didn't sell for much (4 face)
2011 $35

They are both described as multi-use, so may not come up in a search for humidors.

 

Awesomely hideous and hideously awesome!

 

Hence, my interest!

 

My husband used to always tell me I had "fugly" taste in art! ..And I do!

Charlie Cheswick, are you going to auction this off? If so, I will like to watch it and maybe bid on it!

 

hey there, yeah will probably list after crimbo, will let you know when i do

 

Maybe Bankoware, problem with google searching is so many people tag and list stuff as Bankoware that isn’t.

 

LOL!
New word of my day!! Best describes Christmas nowadays for me too!

 

Thanks @anundverkaufen , never knew there was a whole line of fugly!

Does Charlie's piece seem to be originally mold cast to you? Looks all formed by hand to me, but my eyesight is bad. My brain ain't doing great these days either!! ugh!!