Large face jug of red stoneware covered with a beige wood ash glaze that is streaked through with shades of gray, brown, red, white and black, the body bulbous and decorated with a series of six faces around it, with each eye part of one face as well as part of the one next to it, with six noses and six pairs of thick lips, the teeth formed of small stoneware shards, the faces' eyebrows form the shoulder of the jug, which has a long neck and three loop handles, the interior likewise glazed.

Face Jug

John Rezner

1998

Titles Face Jug (Descriptive)
Artist John Rezner, American, born 1967, lives and works in Fairhope, Alabama
Medium glazed stoneware
Dimensions 17 × 12 in. Diam. (43.2 × 30.5 cm)
Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of the Jack and Rebecca Drake Collection, AFI.30.2021
Work Type pot
Classification Containers