Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.

Covered Jar

Artist Mark Hewitt (American, 1955-)

Manufacturer W.M. Hewitt Pottery

CultureAmerican

Date1993

MediumSalt glazed stoneware

DimensionsOverall: 35 1/2 in. (90.2 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase

Object number93.22.1

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DescriptionThis is a covered jar of wood fired, salt glazed stoneware with glass runs and manganese and iron drips. It is a tall bulbous jar with four applied handles near top of pot. A "crimped" band around jar near top. Brown stoneware with colored glass runs form cover and handles in blue. Black manganese and iron drips down sides of pot.

Label TextW. Mark Hewitt English/American (b. 1955), Stoke-on-Trent Covered Jar, 1993 Salt glazed stoneware Museum Purchase 93.22.l a-b W. Mark Hewitt is a transplanted Englishman who works in North Carolina, where he has given the local folk art tradition his own sophisticated twist. He probably has the largest wood-fired kiln in North Carolina, firing some 2,000 ceramics at a time. His work has been added not only to the Museum's collection, but to many local private collections as well. His work is the subject of a major exhibition currently being organized by North Carolina State University, Raleigh. Edited By: GLYExhibition History"Southern Pottery from the Collection of The Chrysler Museum", Norfolk, VA, March 3/4 - May 29, 1994. "Treasures for the Community: The Chrysler Collects, 1989-1996," October 25, 1996 - February 16, 1997 "Mark Hewitt, Potter," North Carolina State University, Visual Arts Center, October 16 - December 7, 1997. Published ReferencesCharles Millard, et al., "Mark Hewitt: Potter," FOUNDATIONS GALLERY VISUAL ARTS CENTER NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY, (Raleigh, NC, 1997), VI, 23, 65.