A highly ovoid form with flat rim, applied lug handles, streaky alkaline glaze, handles with impressed stamp "I.L." and "5" indicating capacity.

14 1/2 x 13 x 13 in.

Single-Owner Southern Pottery, Private Collection

Lefevers, bound to Daniel Seagle as an apprentice in 1845, made this well-turned ovoid jar with a runny alkaline glaze.

Issac Lefevers' pottery demonstrates an extraordinary level of skill in his craft, especially considering his early and untimely death in 1864. In the 1840s, he was apprenticed to one of the finest potters of the 19th century, Daniel Seagle, and he continued to work in the Catawba Valley until he enlisted in the Confederate Army in 1862. He was mortally wounded in battle in Virginia and died in 1864. Given the short life span of Issac Lefevers, the number of his signed pieces of pottery is very limited.

Tight but stable hairline crack stemming from the rim, approximately 8 in.; all over leaching to glaze, primarily throughout the lower half of body with associated clay exposure; underside center with quarter size area of surface loss.