Lot 105
105
A GLAZED REDWARE FANCY PRESENTATION FLOWER POT

Details
A GLAZED REDWARE FANCY PRESENTATION FLOWER POT
ATTRIBUTED TO ENOS SMEDLEY 1805-1892, WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, DATED 1827

Urn shaped, with double ruffled rim above an an inscribed body "Earl Pell L. C. Leah Connell 5th moth, 18th dy, 1827." decorated with foliate sprigs resting on a double ruffled saucer embellished with daubs of green, brown and yellow on red ground with clear lead glaze--9¾in. high, 8½in. diam.
Provenance
Parke Edwards Sale, Pennypacker Auction Centre, Reading, Pennsylvania, April 28, 1969, lot 287.

Lot Essay

Enos Smedley was born in 1805, in Willistown Township, Chester County, and was the son of George Smedely, a Quaker immigrant. Enos Smedely was the last potter to apprentice to Aaron James, who died in 1823. He was listed in the tax records of 1827 and 1829 as a potter. According to a family geneology, he purchased the Jesse Kearsey pottery in Downingtown. In 1831 he established the West Chester Pottery.