Jugtown Pottery (Seagrove, NC), Seven Chicken Figures

(7) variously glazed and decorated stoneware and earthenware chicken figures to include (1) by Pamela Owens with polka dotted body, signed, stamped, and dated 2002 to underside (11 1/8 x 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.); (5) by Charles Moore: the tallest with brown glaze and applied decorative strips of clay (9 1/2 x 4 x 7 1/2 in.), a salt glazed chicken with incised details and cobalt decoration to head and tail (8 1/4 x 4 x 7 in.), and (3) with lead orange glaze and incised details (tallest 8 1/4 x 4 x 8 3/4 in., medium 8 x 7 1/2 x 4 in., smallest 7 1/2 x 4 x 7 3/4 in.), all variously signed, stamped and dated; and (1) orange lead glazed rooster, inscribed "Jugtown / 1974" to posterior base (7 3/8 x 4 x 6 1/2 in.).

Private Collection, Greensboro, North Carolina

Pamela Owens with firing crack to underside interior; Charles Moore orange hen with a few chips to underside and firing crack wrapping base; Moore rooster with break and repair to tail; two small chips to underside of 1974 rooster, with some scattered firing hairlines.