This strong , classic, 7 1/2” tall Neck Vase form is a melding of North Carolina tradition combined with ancient world traditions. It is a deep cobalt blue, almost iron blue. This vase weighs 1 pound 8 ounces. Jugtown Ware has a deep history, founded in the early years of the 1900’s.

Vernon Owens, the artist who crafted the vase, and signed the base, has received the North Carolina Folk Heritage Award and the NEA National Heritage Fellowship. He works with his artist wife and adult children to continue the traditions laid out by the founders of Jugtown Ware over 100 years ago. This is an authentic American story, rooted in a love of natural surroundings and respect for folk & traditional craft.

Jugtown Ware is a working pottery and an American Craft Shop located in a grove of trees and bamboo eight miles south of Seagrove, in Moore County, NC. It is just off Busbee Road, a road named for Jacques and Juliana Busbee, the founders of Jugtown. Both artists with a love of craft and form, together they created Jugtown Pottery, melding forms from ancient traditions with those developed in North Carolina. In 1917 they created The Village Store and Tea Room in New York City, and in 1922 they began stamping each piece with the circular Jugtown Ware stamp.

Jugtown thrives on the aesthetic foundation laid out by the Busbee's. Vernon Owens, recipient of the NC Folk Heritage Award and the NEA National Heritage Fellowship, wife Pam, son Travis and daughter Bayle are the main potters; while Bobby Owens mixes clay and glazes the pieces.