Vintage Browns Pottery Vase, Arden NC, Hand Thrown Drip Glaze

This absolutely beautiful studio made brown drip glaze tall vase was handmade at Brown's Pottery in Arden, North Carolina. This is in the Blue Ridge area of the state. Several artists craft at Brown's Pottery, including pottery, hand-built creations and more. The artist that made this piece is unknown, they are many crafters at Brown's Pottery. According to the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area, Brown's Pottery can only be bought at the Arden location.

The dark and mid browns are beautiful on this piece and it is in impeccable condition. No chips, cracks, or crazing. The vessel measures 11 1/2" tall and the diameter at the mouth is 4 1/2". Beautiful with or without flowers, this piece will make a statement in your home.

When potter Davis Brown arrived in North Carolina in 1924, drawn by the quality of Buncombe County’s clay, he brought with him from Georgia an already well established family pottery tradition. He was soon followed by his brothers, including Javan, also an important figure in North Carolina’s pottery history, and Willie and Rufus Brown. Within a few years, so many people worked for Brown Brothers Pottery that the business had its own baseball team. Davis fitted his automobile with a pottery devil’s head that he used as a radiator cap, a mobile advertisement for the Brown Brothers’ wares.

More than eighty years later, Charlie Brown, an eighth-generation potter (or ninth, by the accounts of some pottery historians), continues to run the pottery that his grandfather and great-uncles established, which is now the oldest continuously operated business in Arden.

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