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Artist:
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Anna Pottery
Formerly attributed to Kirkpatrick Pottery
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Title:
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Snake jug
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Date:
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c. 1865
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Medium:
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Stoneware with painted decoration
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Dimensions:
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12 1/2 x 8 5/16 x 8 11/16 in. (31.75 x 21.11 x 22.07 cm)
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Credit Line:
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The Walter C. and Mary C. Briggs Endowment Fund, gift of funds from Mrs. Eunice Dwan, The Fred R. Salisbury II Fund, and The Decorative Arts Deaccession Fund
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Location:
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Gallery 303
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The Anna Pottery in Anna, Illinois is best known today for its eccentric wares, often laden with political and temperance sentiment. The most innovative of these objects are highly sculptural jugs, invariably designed with realistic writhing snakes, symbolic of the evils of drinking. This tour de force jug shows Union troops attempting to apprehend Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, disguised in the female attire he purportedly donned during his last escape. Bizarre yet strangely attractive, the jug speaks to the 19th-century passion for naturalism and American patriotism at the time of the Civil War, all wrapped up in an object indelibly linked to the Mississippi Valley, from its clay material to its subject matter.
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Artist/Creator(s)
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Name:
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Kirkpatrick Pottery
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Role:
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Manufacturer
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Name:
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Anna Pottery
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Role:
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Manufacturer
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Life Dates:
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Anna, Illinois, 1859-1894
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Object Description
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Inscriptions:
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Label on bottom, on label: [3734]
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Classification:
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Ceramics
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Physical Description:
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applied snakes twine into and around jug; five 3-dimensional figures and one low relief figure; applied spiders, frog and lizard; incised phrases; multicolored pigment traces
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Accession #:
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2004.122
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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