This carefully modeled face jug with white, movable eyes and teeth was probably made by Fortune Justice, a Black ceramicist working in the Edgefield Pottery District of South Carolina. Trained while enslaved and a prolific artist when freed, Justice is one of only a handful of potters with surviving work from this region, which was home to over four hundred ceramicists of African descent in the mid–1800s. Face jugs were made by Black potters for the Black community. During enslavement, owning personal possessions like these humanized ceramics was an act of resistance.