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Center. The most significant
piece of pottery from this col-
lection is likely a small, tin-
glazed red earthenware jar
with cobalt decoration made
by John W. Bell, which has
been inscribed around the rim
“April 22, 1858 Waynesboro.”
Furthermore, the base is
inscribed “JWB,” and the jar
has also been stamped “John
Bell.” This type of tin-glazed
red earthenware is well-
known from the Bell pottery
today but is also considered
very rare.
Two slip-decorated bowls
in the exhibit were commis-
sioned from John Bell (about
1840) for the Snow Hill Society.
Even though these bowls are
widely published today, I
never get tired of seeing them.
A large group of “Nunnery
bowls” sold in 1997 when the
contents of the Snow Hill
Nunnery were sold by Horst
Auctioneers in Ephrata, Pa. It
was published in Maine
Antique Digest that 40 match-
ing bowls were made for the
serve stew during a ritual love
feast by the German Seventh
Day Baptists of the Snow Hill
Society. Snow Hill was in
Quincy, Pa., close
Waynesboro.
This church may have been
a regular customer of the Bell
pottery, seeing that other
marked wares from John Bell
were at Snow Hill.
All in all, it took me a few
hours to see the entire pottery
collection, and it’s an experi-
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Upon leaving the museum, ART- OLD OIL PAINTINGS wanted, any
I asked the location of where
John Bell’s pottery stood and
was told although it is gone, it
was nearby in downtown
Waynesboro. An old building
partially occupies the site
along with a parking lot; how-
ever, seeing this site complet-
ed my trip. I saw hundreds of
pieces of pottery made in
Waynesboro in the 1800s and
now stood at the location
Some of the Bell pottery exhibit inside the Renfrew Museum Visitors Center
includes production molds used at the pottery in the 1800s.
where much of it was made,
the spot where much of the
best red earthenware and
stoneware in 19th-century
America was produced.
The Renfrew Museum and
Park is located at 1010 E. Main
St., Waynesboro, Pa.
To learn more, visit
www.renfrewmuseum.org.
Photos by the author with Lighting by Stickley, Roycroft, Limbert
permission of the museum.
Sources:
Comstock, H..E. The Pottery
of the Shenandoah Valley
Region. The University Press of
North Carolina, 1994.
Manger, Connie and
Here is more of the Bell pottery exhibit inside the Renfrew Museum Visitors George Manger. Pottery from
the Shenandoah and
Center.
Cumberland Valleys.
Hagerstown, MD: Dr. George
and Connie Manger, 2003.
Rice, Albert H. and John B.
Stoudt. The Shenandoah
Pottery. Shenandoah
Publishing House, 1929.
Smith, Jane M. Historic Folk
Pottery from the Collection of
the Renfrew Museum and Park.
Renfrew Committed Inc.,
Nicodemus Center for Ceramic
Studies Inc. and the
Pennsylvania Historical and
Museum Commission, October
2005.
Wiltshire, William E. Folk
Pottery of the Shenandoah
Valley. New York: E. P. Dutton &
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This is the location of the circa 1833-1908 Bell pottery in downtown Waynesboro, Pa.