Catawba Valley, North Carolina, alkaline-glazed stoneware canning jar, circa 1880, of tall cylindrical form with rounded shoulder and rolled rim. The surface is covered in a variegated brown alkaline glaze with attractive runs and firing variations characteristic of nineteenth-century Catawba Valley pottery. Produced as a practical food-storage vessel, this jar represents the important utilitarian stoneware tradition that flourished in Catawba and Lincoln counties during the nineteenth century. 10" mint condition as fired from the aritst.