Large face jug of red stoneware and covered with a mottled, opaque teal-blue glaze, the pointed jug with neck on top is covered with a drippy and streaked blue and black glaze that runs down the face alongside the nose, with two dark eyes, the ears implied on the sides of the face, indented at the cheeks, the mouth open and with three large, rounded porcelain teeth.

Face Jug

Billy Joe Craven

Early 2000s

Titles Face Jug (Descriptive)
Artist Billy Joe Craven, American, born 1948, lives and works in Gillsville, Georgia
Medium stoneware, glazed and porcelain
Dimensions 12 × 8 × 8 3/4 in. (30.5 × 20.3 × 22.2 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Carl Schinasi, 2022.244
Work Type jug
Classification Containers