Jugtown Charlie Moore Chicken/Rooster salt and pepper shakers

I fell in love with their little faces. They are extremely earnest looking foul with that true cockeyed look chickens always have. I knew Jugtown was an important southern pottery concern but learned when I got home a bit more about it and that the artist who created these was Charlie Moore.
Here is a bit of history from their website but before I lay that out, I wanted to note that Jugtown is the term used for several towns in the North Carolina area where pottery has been made for years. Charlie Moore, who made these, was well known for his chickens.
Anyway, I feel lucky to have found these guys.
Jugtown Pottery is a working pottery and an American Craft Shop located in a grove of trees and bamboo eight miles south of Seagrove. 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 world traditions with those developed in North Carolina. In 1917 they created a Southern Tea Room and American Craft Shop in New York City, and in 1922 they began stamping each piece with the circular Jugtown ware stamp.

The forms derive from simplicity and practice, a continuous line, then a complimentary glaze and occasional decoration. Drawing from the North Carolina tradition, you will find jugs, pitchers and candlesticks in wood fired salt glaze and frogskin, and tableware's in green, blue, brown and gray. Vases, bowls and jars in glazes made with wood ash, local clays, copper reds, greens and iron earth tones, have origins in world clay traditions.