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Texas pottery. (Current and Coming).
Pottery making took root in the Deep South in the Edgefield District--today Edgefield, Aiken, and Greenwood Counties in South Carolina along the Georgia border. The area had rich clay deposits and drew potters during the early years of the nineteenth century. By mid-century there were five potteries there, and a number of potters had migrated west to establish their own kilns. A number of them worked in the eastern and central portions of Texas, producing mainly utilitarian stonewares as they had in Edgefield. These included large jars and jugs, butter chums, and tablewares.
An exhibition on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, surveys the output of a number of Texas potters, with the focus on a rare group of objects made at a pottery owned by Hyrum Wilson, a former slave. Entitled The Wilson Potters: An African-American Enterprise in 19th-Century Texas, the show includes some twenty objects and may be seen until March 3, 2003.
One of the most important Texas potters was John McKamey Wilson Jr., who, about 1857, established the Guadalupe Pottery in Guadalupe County near Seguin, Texas. Wilson was a clergyman, lawyer, teacher, and planter, but had never been trained in pottery making. Clearly his slaves were adept, for it was they who labored in his pottery works. Pottery in ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Texas pottery. (Current and Coming).