Pottery: pigs

Pottery: pigs

Brown's Pottery (Arden, N.C.)

Handicraft

Pottery

This family of pigs was made by Louis Brown probably in the late 1920s or early 1930s. Brown was part of the family who ran Brown's Pottery in Arden, North Carolina. As a child, Brown made pig families from scrap clay at the pottery. When Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt visited the area, looking at local art work, she purchased several pig families to take back to Washington, D.C. as gifts. These are made from unglazed local clay.

Brown, Louis

Permanent Collection

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

1925/1935

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crafts (art genres)

StillImage

14601

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2008-02-06

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Buncombe County (N.C.)

Appalachian Region, Southern

Sow: 3" x 1.75" x 1.5", piglets: 1.5" x 0.75" x 1"(dimension)

Craft Revival