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Lemuel Rowell was a potter from Connecticut who settled at Bald Mountain, a hamlet in the western part of the town of Greenwich. Rowell, who was born in 1782, is the first documented potter at Bald Mountain when he enumerated in the 1810 Census for Greenwich. Rowell’s potter was located on the east side of the old Hartford Road, leading from Argyle south the Galesville, on a small piece of land described in deeds as being bounded on the east by the “lime rocks” and a spring on the western edge of the mountain.
Redware Jar
Date1835
MediumRedware
DimensionsOverall: 8 × 7 in. (20.3 × 17.8 cm) (diameter at base: 4.375")
Object numberN0024.2021
Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Dr. Nancy Kollisch and Dr. Jeffrey Pressman, In Memory of Pepi Jelinek, MD.
Label TextUntil the discovery of this jar, no signed examples of his work were known. As relatively few signed examples of redware from this state have survived, this jar ranks among the most important examples of New York redware.Lemuel Rowell was a potter from Connecticut who settled at Bald Mountain, a hamlet in the western part of the town of Greenwich. Rowell, who was born in 1782, is the first documented potter at Bald Mountain when he enumerated in the 1810 Census for Greenwich. Rowell’s potter was located on the east side of the old Hartford Road, leading from Argyle south the Galesville, on a small piece of land described in deeds as being bounded on the east by the “lime rocks” and a spring on the western edge of the mountain.
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c. 1970-1985
c. 1970-1985
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1984
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