Riding Potter Or Self-Portrait
Artist
Billy Ray Hussey
CultureAmerican
Date1994
MediumAlkaline glazed stoneware
DimensionsOverall: 8 x 7 in. (20.3 x 17.8 cm)
InscribedIncised on back of figure: "Riding Potter" and on back of pig the initials "BH"
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number94.1.15
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a ceramic sculpture (whimsey) of the potter, Billy Ray Hussey, riding a boar. The boar has a brown alkaline glaze, the tusks are white, and the figure is in blue bib overalls.Exhibition History"Southern Pottery from the Collection of The Chrysler Museum," The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA, March 3/4 - May 29, 1994. Published ReferencesRoy Thompson, FACE JUGS, CHICKENS AND OTHER WHIMSEYS (Glastonbury, CT: The Southern Pottery Collectors Society, 1990), p. 7. VERNACULAR POTTERY OF NORTH CAROLINA, 1982-1986, FROM THE COLLECTION OF LEONIDAS J. BETTS (Raleigh, NC: University Center Gallery, North Carolina State University, 1987), p. 18.
