back button
Face Jug, 1860-80
Alkaline glazed stoneware, kaolin inserts.
9 x 7"
Collection of Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History, Gift of Marsh/Van Alstyne. Courtesy Division of Home and Community Life, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.

Left: "An Aesthetic Darkey," fromm series of stereoscopic cards by photographer J. A. Palmer of Aiken, South Carolina, 1882. Courtesy J. Garrison Stradling.

Right "The Aesthetic Monkey," 1882. Courtesy of the Wisconsin Historical Society, Whi-91892.