# Lanier Meaders artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/lanier-meaders/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:12:13.680Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Pottery

## Portrait

![Lanier Meaders](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5b/Quillan_Lanier_Meaders.jpg)
Lanier Meaders · see-source-page
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanier_Meaders

## About Lanier Meaders

Lanier Meaders (1917–1988), also identified as Quillan Lanier Meaders, was an American potter. The collected authority record confirms his core identity and occupation, while the available biographical source identifies face jugs as the form for which he is best known. That association helps explain why collectors encounter his name in searches for figural pottery and face-jug objects. The present source pack is strongest on his name, lifespan, nationality, occupation, and connection with face jugs. It is much thinner on his training, working chronology, exhibitions, museum holdings, and detailed stylistic development. Those broader biographical areas are therefore left unresolved rather than extended beyond the available evidence. Objects carrying his name should be considered through both the specific face-jug category and the broader pottery context, with auction records used only when the maker attribution and object type are sufficiently comparable.

## Common works and media

Collectors are most likely to encounter Lanier Meaders through pottery, especially face jugs featuring modeled human facial elements. The available sources do not establish a fuller inventory of forms, named series, editions, or other media, so works outside pottery and face-jug contexts require additional documentation.

## Market and appraisal context

The clearest artist-specific market signal in the collected material is Meaders's association with face jugs. An appraisal should first determine whether an object is a face jug or another pottery form and whether its attribution to Meaders is adequately documented. This source pack does not contain usable auction-house catalogue descriptions or sale-level evidence, so it cannot support claims about price direction, rarity, or premiums. When public auction records are available, the most relevant comparisons are records with a closely matched object type, considered alongside the sale date and realized result rather than treated as predictions of future value.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine bounded artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Source gaps and unresolved attribution questions are retained rather than converted into unsupported conclusions.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28131390
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanier_Meaders
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/18555375/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81148433
- ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000032753366
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/lanier-meaders/