New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

Janus (Double) Face Jug

Maker Jeannette B. Brown (American, active 20th century)

Manufacturer Brown's Pottery

CultureAmerican

Date1993

MediumFeldspathic glazed stoneware

DimensionsOverall: 10 1/2 in. (26.7 cm)

InscribedIncised on bottom: "Brown's/Pottery/Arden, N.C./JDB 11/93"

Credit LineMuseum purchase

Object number94.1.14

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 223

DescriptionThis is a double face jug, made of feldspathic glazed stoneware. The glaze is a glossy red-brown (this glaze has been used for years by Brown's Pottery, and the ingredients are kept secret). The double face has ears (one with two earrings), nose, and eyebrows which seem to be applied as are the two handles. It is a bulbous shape. The second face is just an open mouth filled with yellow-brown teeth and a snake's head sticking out with yellow-brown fangs and tongue.

Exhibition History"Southern Pottery from the Collection of The Chrysler Museum," The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA, March 3/4 - May 29, 1994. Published ReferencesREFERENCE: Nancy Sweezy, RAISED IN CLAY: THE SOUTHERN POTTERY TRADITION (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press for the Office of Folklife Programs, 1984), pp. 163-167.