Press Release

Spectacular results of an auction to benefit the North Carolina Pottery Center

A standing-room only crowd of lively bidders on Sunday at Leland Little Auction and Estate Sales, Ltd. in Hillsborough, raised $34,000 for the North Carolina Pottery Center in Seagrove. Organized by several dedicated supporters of NCPC, the auction featured 191 fine examples of NC pottery donated by several prominent collectors throughout the state, and fetched almost twice as much as the $20,000 that had been anticipated. The sale centered on a substantial collection of Art Ware pottery generously given by Dr. Everette James.

Leland Little very kindly waived all the costs associated with the auction, and in two hours, all the 191 pots had been snapped up by eager pottery lovers. Prices ranged from $10 bargains for a few smaller pieces, to several hundred dollars for many of the most collectible pots. Notable among theses items were a classic late nineteenth century Timothy Boggs canning jar from Alamance County that sold for $650, a handsome J.A. Craven Randolph County crock that sold for $800, and a delightful small green Carolina Pottery frog that sold for $450. Bidding was fierce between members of the knowledgeable collecting community.

NCPC is dedicated to promoting public awareness of North Carolina’s pottery heritage, through educational programs, an extensive permanent collection which is on view at it’s location in Seagrove, and changing pottery exhibitions of old and new NC pots. Like the nearby NC Zoo, this jewel in the state’s cultural heritage draws visitors from around the state and beyond. North Carolina is known as “The Pottery State,” and the response to Sunday’s auction demonstrated a tremendous level of support for NCPC among North Carolina pottery lovers. The extra money puts NCPC on the road to a secure financial footing for the next fiscal year.

The Auction Results

Today was the auction for the NCPC

at Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales, Ltd. Hillsborough, NC

The crowd was large with- standing room only.

I am happy to report the auction raised 35,050.00

Bringing our figure up to 80,549.00.

Pictured at right are Dr. Everette James and his wife Nancy sharing the good news.

The NCPC

Just a note to talk about fundraising.

We are over what I consider our 1/2 way point.
$45,499.00- I am elated and hope to report to you next week how well the auction went.
There are some wonderful works which have been donated.
Lets go buy some!

Auction this Sunday

Fundraising Auction for NC Pottery Center

Date: 28-Sep-2008--Location: Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales, Ltd. Hillsborough, NC
A Fundraising Auction of North Carolina pottery to benefit the North Carolina Pottery Center, hosted by Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales, Ltd.
Featuring the legendary collection of Art Pottery of Dr. Everette James.

Including Catawba Valley pottery, Eastern Piedmont salt-glaze, and other Art Ware pots
donated by many well-known collectors and potters from across the state.

Sale: Sunday, September 28, 2008,
2:00 P.M.
Location: Auction Gallery, 246 S. Nash St.,
Hillsborough
Directions: I-85 exit 164, I-40 exit 261, to downtown Hillsborough, left on W. King St., left on S. Nash St

An illustrated catalogue is posted online
http://www.auctionflex.com/searchauctions.ap?co=23728&lang=en

The Mystique of North Carolina

Part 2
by A. Everette James Jr.



Author: North Carolina Art Pottery


Arthur Ray (A. R.) Cole was both an accomplished turner and glazer. The unused hues of his 1930s glazes made Rainbow Pottery famous. The glazes developed by Henry Cooper, owner of North State Pottery, have created a following of collectors that seek only these examples of North Carolina art pottery. Certain of the glazes are rare and a number of the glaze combinations unique. The variety is so great that irrespective of the size of a collection it would not encompass all Henry Cooper’s oeuvre.

Vase with unusual glaze by Jonah Owen

The glaze work of C. B. Masten, a potter from Indiana employed by C. R. Auman in the 1930s, produced some of the best decorative salt glazing seen in America. Master pieces often have an abstract distribution of the secondary, contrasting glaze. Examples of his artistry have become expensive. The very well illustrated exhibit of his work by the North Carolina State University Gallery of Art and Design demonstrated the originality and artistic breadth of his glazes.


Several accomplished Journey-men potters are only recently garnering the acclaim their abilities deserve. Often they moved from one pottery to another never to accumulate the identifiable body of examples necessary to develop a particular signature. Collectors sometimes acquire forms or glazes with a distinct similarity and by subsequent investigation, identify the potter.


Jonah ("Jonie") Owen began turning for his father at J. H. Owen Pottery before the 1920s. He was an early potter at the shop that would become North State under Henry Cooper.
Jonah Owen produced wares with his brother Walter before North State identified their products with a stamp (1924-1925). Many of the examples by Jonah demonstrated similar forms irrespective of where they were turned. Jonah’s glaze application sometimes had the exotic, somewhat abstract appearance not unlike C. B. Masten examples that would have come a decade later.

Vase 11" cobalt decoration over clear glaze.
Attributed to J. H. Owen.
Very rare. Edward collection.

Rebecca Palmer hired Jonah Owen in 1924 and he brought with him some of the shapes fashioned at J. H. Owen, his father’s pottery. The vase with trophy-like handles is a notable example. Earlier in 1923, Bessie and Tweet Hunter had hired Jonah Owen, Clarence Cole, and Cecil Auman to turn for them at Log Cabin Pottery located in the Guilford College area. Jonah’s examples were turned and often glazed at the Hunter site but fired elsewhere in Seagrove making quality control difficult. The identifying stamp or logo was a log cabin drawn on the bottom of the greenware, often by Myrtice Owen the designer. This was later covered with glaze. Jonah Owen’s examples can only be designated by their turning characteristics. Log Cabin Pottery was a short-lived operation (1923-1927) and after it closed Jonah Owen set up his own operation at Sodom.


James G. Teague (1906-1988) is another of the journeyman Seagrove potters that we are now coming to appreciate the beauty and sophistication of his examples. Jim Teague was from a distinguished family of potters. His brother Charlie was the first potter at Jugtown, before Ben Owen, and "Duck" operated Teague Pottery on Highway 27 south of Hemp which is now Robbins.


James Teague operated his own pottery shop in the 1930s which he sold to C. C. Cole when Teague went to work for Fulper Pottery Company in New Jersey as a demonstration potter. In 1941 Teague returned to North Carolina and opened a shop making large pieces mainly for other potteries such as Joe Owen at Glen Art, M. L. Owens Pottery, and for his brother Duck at Teague Pottery. His son Archie (1935-1998) opened Hand T. Pottery with Archie’s father-in- law Homer Hancock in the 1960s.


Jim Teague’s skill as a turner is outstanding and any examples by him, if identified, are collectible. Often he used incised rings at the juncture between the body and neck of his vessels. He often made wares in which the height seems to be the achievement of the graceful form.
North Carolina art pottery has much to recommend it purely upon an aesthetic basis. However, part of the appeal not always present for other genre is the mystique, the unknown, and yet to be discovered associated with North Carolina art pottery. The collector and scholar are attracted to this intellectual aspect of this particular genre.











Seagrove Pottery, Dorothy Cole Auman & Walter Auman

About the author:
Everette James, a native of rural Martin County, NC., was educated at the University of NC in Chapel Hill, Duke Medical School, Harvard, and the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Dr. James taught at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, University College London, and Vanderbilt. He has published more than 20 books and 500 articles and established St. James Place, a restored historic Primitive Baptist church exhibiting over 400 examples of North Carolina pottery. He and his wife, Dr. Nancy Farmer, have donated their collection of Nell Cole Graves pottery to the North Carolina Pottery Museum at Seagrove and a survey collection of 250 examples to the Chapel Hill Museum. They live in Chapel Hill and are active in community affairs.
All illustrations taken from North Carolina Art Pottery by permission.

Reminder for the coming week

Sept. 28, 2008 - Fundraising Auction for NC Pottery Center

Date: 28-Sep-2008
Time: 2 PM
Location: Hillsborough, NC

Description: Fundraising Auction of NC Pottery to Benefit the NC Pottery Center
A Fundraising Auction of North Carolina pottery to benefit the North Carolina Pottery Center, hosted by Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales, Ltd., featuring the legendary collection of Art Ware pottery of Dr. Everette James, as well as Catawba Valley pottery, Eastern Piedmont salt-glaze, and other Art Ware pots donated by many well-known collectors and potters from across the state.
Sale: Sunday, September 28, 2008, 2:00 P.M.
Location: Auction Gallery, 246 S. Nash St., Hillsborough
Directions: I-85 exit 164, I-40 exit 261, to downtown Hillsborough, left on W. King St., left on S. Nash St.
Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales, Ltd.
246 S. Nash St.,
Hillsborough
919-644-1243
http://www.llauctions.com/

The Mystique of North Carolina Art Pottery

Part 1-

"The Mystique of North Carolina Art Pottery"

by A. Everette James Jr.

Author: North Carolina Art Pottery

Two-handled vase, unsigned. 16 1/2" chrome red. Handle and lip probably 1920s. Attributed to Jacob B. Cole.

North Carolina art pottery had its inspiration in the utilitarian tradition dating as far back for some of the "turners and burners" eight or nine generations ago. This evolution from the historical glazes and forms employed to achieve function to a primary aesthetic basis was a particularly arduous one. Today North Carolina art pottery is being recognized for the artistic achievement it represents.

The large body of rather pedestrian fare has created the idea that all North Carolina pottery is commonplace, inexpensive, and with little artistic merit. It may also be difficult to identify unless it is Jugtown or Pisgah Forest. In fact, some collectors refer to North Carolina art pottery as "Jugtown" equating in their minds the separate entities. However, the outstanding examples of North Carolina pottery are rare and Jugtown (one of the truly important potteries) is located in the Seagrove area along with another hundred shops.

In North Carolina, the fashioning of clay pots occurs in several distinct locales and has its origin from different nationalities and cultures. The Seagrove potters’ forebearers were English, mainly from Staffordshire, and in the central Piedmont the ancestry was German. In the far west, Native American traditions formed the historical basis for the creations we collect.

One of the more intriguing aspects of North Carolina art pottery is that a substantial number of examples are unmarked. The proper identification of pieces represents a challenge and adds to the pleasure of acquisition.

J. B. Cole pottery, one of the largest of North Carolina, employed a number of potters and marked less than 1% of the thousands of wares they made before closing the shop in the 1980s. In the 1930s they published a catalogue of their wares turned by the four potters of Waymon Cole, Philmore Graves, Nell Cole Graves, and Bascomb King.

Pot on left :Unusual A. R. Cole 13 1/2" vase. Mason Stains applied over white base. $350-$425. Note shape of lug handles as an adaptation of historical shapes in North Carolina employed by the Moravian potters.

J. B. Cole pottery had many contractual relations with other businesses to make pottery for them. They would identify the contracting institution by a stamp designed for that specific purpose. Thus, "Sunset Mountain" and "Goose Creek" are not potteries but wares made in the J. B. Cole shop for these businesses. Some collectors like to acquire examples with unusual locations designated by the stamp or label. The Hiltons in the Catawba Valley also produced wares for tourists in resorts such as Tryon where an art colony also flourished in the early to middle decades of the 20th century.

Since there was little aesthetically to borrow upon from the utilitarian tradition, many North Carolina art pottery forms were adapted from Oriental and European shapes and designs. This transition was not seamless and the progression often manifest itself in unique pieces. In fact, one of the most interesting subsets of the North Carolina art pottery spectrum are the transitional wares produced between 1915-1930. One can visually trace the struggle that these families of potters were enduring to continue a tradition practiced for centuries by their forebears. They were, for them, exploring uncharted waters.

Pot Below: Two-handled vase, 13 1/4", double glaze, incised line decoration. Attributed to Charles Teague at Jugtown. Very rare. Edwards collection.

In a labor intensive, multi-tasked endeavor such as the production of handmade North Carolina art pottery, the lack of uniformity can be a problem or a virtue. Some of the pieces may not be desirable due to color and form. Conversely, certain examples will be visually attractive and unique. The variation of Rebecca pitcher or basket forms are almost infinite. The variety of patterns of chrome red or Chinese blue is limitless. Only a few of the potters are known outside the area and then only to avid collectors. Ben Owen, Sr. was the potter at Jugtown for almost four decades. His translation of oriental forms to the shapes featured in Jugtown ware earned him the title "master potter." Jack (or Jacques) Busbee, owner of Jugtown, was trained as a painter at the Art Students’ League in New York. He had seen a great deal of pottery from other cultures in museums and shared this knowledge with young Ben Owen. This long-standing partnership resulted in graceful adaptation of oriental and European forms with their glazes by names such as tobacco spit, Chinese blue, and frogskin. Jugtown has a national following of collectors.

Part 2 to be posted later this week--------------------------------

About the author:Everette James, a native of rural Martin County, NC., was educated at the University of NC in Chapel Hill, Duke Medical School, Harvard, and the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Dr. James taught at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, University College London, and Vanderbilt. He has published more than 20 books and 500 articles and established St. James Place, a restored historic Primitive Baptist church exhibiting over 400 examples of North Carolina pottery. He and his wife, Dr. Nancy Farmer, have donated their collection of Nell Cole Graves pottery to the North Carolina Pottery Museum at Seagrove and a survey collection of 250 examples to the Chapel Hill Museum. They live in Chapel Hill and are active in community affairs. All illustrations taken from North Carolina Art Pottery by permission.

North Carolina Pottery Center: Squirrel Bottle

We will be featuring some of the pieces that are part of the collection in the North Carolina Pottery Center. Nothing compares to seeing pottery in person so if you get the chance to come to Seagrove check out the Center's collection.

The first piece is a Moravian squirrel bottle.

This is a quote from the North Carolina Pottery Center booklet that can be purchased in the gift shop, "The Moravians are a Protestant sect founded in the German regions of central Europe. During the 1730's they began emigrating to America, first to Georgia and Pennsylvania, and then to North Carolina."

Michael Kline, a potter from the mountains, asked how would this bottle functioned?
I asked Mary Farrell owner of Westmoore Pottery if she has come across an answer to this. She replied, "I don't think anyone really knows the answer to this question. Being a bottle, they could have been used as such. However, I know of no antique ones which have been recovered with any contents inside them. My guess is that they were made and sold mainly as decorative items (The wear patterns - no overabundance of chipping at the bottle openings -- would tend to support this.)"

The Squirrel Bottle is attributed to Rudolph Christ from Forsyth County. The dates are c 1800-1825. This is lead glazed earthenware and is on loan from Old Salem, Inc.

Inside the North Carolina Pottery Center

The above image has two women pictured. The woman on the left is Nell Cole Graves and on the right is Dorothy Auman.

We are planning on doing a series of what one may find inside the North Carolina Pottery Center when they visit. There are many people that may have heard of the Center but have not had the pleasure to see it in person yet. We wanted to show everyone what a fine place this is and how important it is to keep the doors open. Please take the time to visit the Pottery Center and discover for yourself what a wonderful facility this is for learning about North Carolina pottery, and the rich history of working with clay.

The Pictures below are an overview of of the permanent display.

The Skinny on Saving the NC Pottery Center

The Skinny on Saving the NC Pottery Center, By Tom Starland
I last posted info about the effort to save the NC Pottery Center in Seagrove, NC, on Aug. 18, 2008. So it’s time to update you readers on what has happened since then.
The last time I gave an update on money raised it was on Aug. 11, 2008, and at that time $30,000 had been raised. As I post this the current amount raised is $41,983.89. That’s almost half way to their goal of raising $90,000. The remaining $10,000 will be donated by a NC couple to cap off the goal of raising $100,000. That’s a glass half-full view. See, I can be positive at times.
A whopping $2,325 of that money was raised by Mark Hewitt’s raffle for a 2-gallon jar, of his creation. 116 tickets were purchased for the raffle, (if you’re doing the math - one person paid $25 instead of $20 for their ticket) with all the proceeds to benefit the NC Pottery Center. The lucky winner was Greg Sims of Durham, NC. Sims now has helped save the Pottery Center and won a jar worth $350. If he only purchased one ticket for $20 - that’s a very nice investment - on both levels.
Another development is that Meredith Heywood of Whynot Pottery has started a new blog for information about the effort to save the NC Pottery Center - it can be found at (http://pottersforncpc.blogspot.com/). You’ll get the very latest info on this blog. You can learn about other raffles and opportunities to purchase pottery and help the NC Pottery Center keep it’s door open.
The BIG event taking place this month will be a benefit auction hosted by Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales (http://www.llauctions.com/), on Sept. 28, 2008, in Hillsborough, NC. Dr. Everette James, an eminent NC pottery collector and Board member of the NC Pottery Center, has generously donated a substantial collection of NC pottery to be put up for bid. Other noted collectors from around the state have joined the effort, donating treasured antique NC pots for this auction. A second auction, held at the NC Pottery Center in Seagrove, will be held in the spring of 2009. It will feature contemporary North Carolina pottery.
On a good news/bad news event, Denny Mecham, who was the executive director of the NC Pottery Center has been hired as the new executive director of the future Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art in Biloxi, MS. “This is a new Frank Gehry-designed museum”.
It didn’t take long for the search committee in Biloxi to select Mecham out of 40 applicants. Seagrove’s loss is Biloxi’s gain, but I’m sure the folks in Seagrove are happy Mecham was discovered to be the talented and experienced asset - they knew.
Let’s just hope that the powers that be in NC realize, before it’s too late, what could be lost if the NC Pottery Center is also allowed to slip away. Of course you people out there can have a lot to say about that possibility too. You can make a donation toward the $90,000 goal, you can become a member of the NC Pottery Center, you can participate in one of the benefit auctions, raffles, or by purchasing a piece of pottery where the proceeds will be donated. You can also help by spreading the word about the effort to save the NC Pottery Center - knowledge is power.


I am adding a note on this -Thanks Samantha Henneke from Bulldog Pottery for your help putting up the photos inside the center.
Beautiful job. Meredith

Dan Finch Raffle for the NCPC

North Carolinian selected as head of Ohr-O'Keefe

North Carolinian selected as head of Ohr-O'Keefe
By PAM FIRMIN

North Carolina potter, educator, museum director and arts leader Denny Mecham starts work Oct. 15 as the new executive director of Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art in Biloxi.
She follows Marjorie Gowdy, who retired at the end of August.
Mecham was chosen from a field of about 40 applicants, of which Ohr board members interviewed 21 by phone and the final five in person.
"We're pretty pleased with our find, I've got to tell you," Ohr board President Larry Clark said Monday about Mecham's selection.
"With her background and experience with fundraising and building projects, she's the whole package. People are thrilled with her abilities, but her personality and temperament make her the type person who is going to fit into our community."
That was a key factor. The board wanted someone willing to move to the Coast and make it their home, Clark said, who would become involved in the community and would make a 10-year commitment to the museum.
'I think God must have sent her to us,'
" Clark quoted someone saying of Mecham.
On Monday, the first time Mecham saw the beachfront construction site for the new Frank Gehry-designed museum, she told the Sun Herald, "It took my breath away. All I can see is the potential. What a vision."
She said a museum "really represents that true independent and creative spirit that is the people of that area.
"By working with tourism, by providing a network for community activities... a museum does not stand alone," Mecham said. "Part of its job is to engage the community, both local and national.
"My job is to fundraise, get grants, be proactive. The board is very clear that given the economic needs of the area that our fundraising needs to happen elsewhere. We have a real challenge there."
First on her agenda is... " to jump right in and immediately prioritize," she said. "I'll be listening more than anything."
She will be here next week to find a place to live, then will be publicly introduced at the annual Beau Rivage gala Oct. 15.
The Mecham file
Who: Denny Mecham, the newly named executive director of the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art in Biloxi, who begins duties here Oct. 15.
Education: She holds two master's degrees, one in science in studio art and the other in art; worked as a college instructor for 22 years, most recently as assistant professor of art at Catawba College in Salisbury, N.C.;
Artist: Was a potter for many years, also a weaver and painter; continued as a studio artist while teaching.
Museums: In 1994 became museum curator, then director, at the Waterworks Visual Arts Center in Salisbury, N.C., and directed the capital campaign to build a new art center. Currently she is executive director at the North Carolina Pottery Center in Seagrove, N.C., a museum dedicated to showcasing North Carolina pottery.

And the Winner is.............

At 5 pm on Sunday, August 31, the last customer at the Hewitt's Summer Kiln Opening drew the winning raffle ticket for the two gallon jar. Visiting the pottery for the first time, Emily Wilkins, from Rutherfordton, NC, who was staying with her aunt and uncle, Terry and Carole Herndon in Pittsboro, pulled out the winning ticket. The lucky winner is Greg Sims of Durham, NC. Congratulations Greg!

116 tickets were purchased for the Raffle, raising a grand total of $2325 (one person paid $25 instead of $20 for their ticket), with all the proceeds to benefit the North Carolina Pottery Center.

NCPC Article

The North Carolina Pottery Center is the physical manifestation of years of advocacy on behalf of North Carolina’s ceramic tradition by a host of dedicated collectors, historians, potters, and enthusiasts. Opened in 1998 to promote awareness of North Carolina’s outstanding emblematic craft, NCPC has become a much-loved, state-wide institution, exhibiting the best pots from around the state, both historic and contemporary, and educating schoolchildren, scout groups, tourists, even potters, about North Carolina’s ceramic heritage. Located at the center of the vibrant pottery community of Seagrove, south of Asheboro, NCPC is also a welcome center for visitors to Seagrove potteries.

In July of 2008, the Board of Directors, along with past Board members and friends of the NCPC, launched a multi-faceted, fundraising campaign for the Center. Our goal is to raise $100,000 and the campaign is well underway, with $40,000 raised so far.

Dr. Everette James, an eminent NC pottery collector and Board member, donated a substantial collection of NC pottery to be put up for bid at a Benefit Auction for NCPC. Many other noted collectors and potters from around the state have spontaneously joined the effort, donating treasured antique North Carolina pots for this auction.

The quality of the donated pots is truly spectacular, indicating the breadth of support for NCPC, an institution many feel is a priceless cultural treasure. Over 190 pots and “box lots” (groups of smaller pots), have been assembled, and among these are superb examples from all the different regions, makers, and time periods of North Carolina’s ceramic history. There are wonderful utilitarian wares from both the Randolph County area and the Catawba Valley, some of them with rare maker’s marks, as well as enticing transitional pots from the early twentieth century, and then an outstanding variety of “Art Ware” pots from the 1930’s -!960’s. All the great names and styles of North Carolina pottery are represented.

What is exciting about this collection, apart from the fundraising effort on behalf of NCPC, is that it offers the public a chance to see, bid, and perhaps own, part of North Carolina’s distinctive ceramic history. Nowadays you can buy objects to ornament your home that have been made all over the world, but this auction allows people an opportunity to give their living spaces a truly North Carolinian flavor. These distinctive, high-quality pots are homegrown, and will appreciate in value as they warm a domestic interior with their unique friendliness. We look forward to sharing them with the pottery lovers of North Carolina.

For more information, please visit http://www.ncpotterycenter.com/ and http://www.llauctions.com/

North Carolina Pottery Center Auction

Fundraising Auction of NC Pottery
to Benefit The North Carolina Pottery Center

Names of potters included in the Auction are:
James Franklin Seagle, SL Hartsoe, early unsigned Catawba Valley (possibly Lefevers),
Propst, JW Hilton, Blackburn, Harvey Reinhardt, Thomas Ritchie, John Goodman,
B.B.Craig, Albert Hodge,unsigned Edgefield SC, unsigned Webster School, EA Poe, H Fox,
Tim Boggs, JF Brower, JAMacon, WH Hancock, JA Craven, JD Craven, JM Hayes,
several excellent earthenware dirtdishes,
Pisgah Forest, George Donkel, WM Penland, Log Cabin, Carolina Pottery, Rainbow,
Sunset Mtn, Smithfield, Auman, Seagrove Pottery, Dorothy Auman signed Seagrove Pottery,
CBMaston, CC Cole, Rainbow, AR Cole, JB Cole, Neolia and Celia Cole, David Garner,
Billy Ray Hussey, Mark Hewitt, Charlie Craven, Joe Owen, ML Owens,
Jugtown, Charlie Moore, Ben Owen Master Potter,
Nancy Sweezy signed Jugtown, and many more.

Names of donors:
Dr. Everette James, John and Jerry Gimesh, Bragg Cox, Tim Blackburn, Scott Smith,
Bill Ivey,David Blackburn, Tommy Cranford, Jugtown Pottery, Nancy Blount,
Neil Lapp, Charlotte Brown,Sandra Frohner, Bruce Gholson, Ray Smith,
Fran Irvin, Tom Turner, Cathy Blackwelder, Beth Ann and Tommy McPherson,
Caroleen Sanders, Gene Brown, Cindy and Tommy Edwards,
Steve Compton, Ray Owen, Alan and Barry Huffman, Monty Busick,
Terry Zug, WD Morton.

A Fundraising Auction of North Carolina pottery to benefit the North
Carolina Pottery Center,
hosted by Leland Little Auction & EstateSales, Ltd.,
featuring the legendary collection of Art Ware pottery of
Dr. Everette James, as well as Catawba Valley pottery, Eastern Piedmont
salt-glaze, and other Art Ware pots donated by many well-known
collectors and potters from across the state.

SALE: Sunday, September 28, 2008, 2:00 P.M.
LOCATION: LLAES, Ltd. Auction Gallery, 246 S. Nash St., Hillsborough, NC
DIRECTIONS: I-85 exit 164, I-40 exit 261, to downtown Hillsborough,
left on W. King St., left on S. Nash St.
An illustrated catalogue will be posted online prior to the auction.

information:

http://ncpotterycenter.com/index.htm
or http://www.llauctions.com/