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Lot 3103
NC Pottery, Two Chicken Figures, Mary Jane Owen
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Attributed to the spouse of J.H. Owen, 1920s, molded earthenware, pierced as shakers.

5 in. and 4.25 in.

From the collection of the late Bragg Cox, Cary, North Carolina

Mary Jane's parents sold the Busbees the land upon which Jugtown was built. She and other ladies, as well as children, molded chicken-shaped shakers which were sold at Jugtown for ten cents each.

The larger with small glaze flake to crest of comb.