Stove tile

Attributed name

Mount Shepherd pottery

Date

• 1793-1800

Summary

• Attributed to the Mount Shepherd pottery. This fragmentary press-molded stove tile was recovered at Philip Jacob Meyer’s pottery site at Mount Shepherd. He trained at the Moravian pottery at Salem but was banished from the community for persistent bad behavior in 1789. He worked briefly for Gottlob Krause at Bethabara before setting up his own manufactory in Randolph County. For more on press-molded tiles and complete stoves, see John Bivins, Jr., The Moravian Potters in North Carolina (University of North Carolina Press for Old Salem, Inc., 1972), pp. 175-88.