Jugtown and Ben Owen Master Potter (Seagrove, NC), Two Orange Lead Glazed Pottery Cracker Jars

Earthenware lidded jars with two applied lug handles, the first a 1960-1972 jar, with Owen's master potter stamp to underside (11 1/4 x 8 x 8 in.), the second a late-20th-century Jugtown jar with Jugtown Ware stamp to underside (10 3/4 x 8 x 8 in.).

Private Collection, Greensboro, North Carolina

Ben Owen jar with small areas of restoration to lid, hairline with associated touchups wrapping rim, small chip to inner rim; jugtown jar with small nick to glaze at base and lid, smoothed nick to inner rim, a few chips to rim of lid.