The AP reports the jar is one of two returned to Drake's family as part of a historic agreement this month between Drake's descendants and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, one of the institutions that holds pieces of his work. The vessels are among hundreds of surviving works by "Dave the Potter," an enslaved man who labored in the alkaline-glazed stoneware potteries of Edgefield, South Carolina, in the decades before and during the Civil War. The agreement represents what experts say is the first major case of art restitution involving works created by an enslaved person in the US—a process traditionally associated with families seeking the return of art looted by the Nazis in World War II.
Author: Kate Seamons
Published at: 2025-11-22 21:31:00
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