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By Rachel Grove Rohrbaugh
Collection Overview
Title: Clarence Spohn Ephrata Collection Artifacts
Predominant Dates:c. 1750-1800
ID: RG01/Art-0004
Primary Creator: Ephrata Cloister
Extent: 8.0 Items
Date Acquired: 04/00/2019
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Item descriptions and numbers taken from Spohn's personal inventory.
Administrative Information
Repository:
Earl H. and Anita F. Hess Archives and Special Collections
Acquisition Method:
Purchase by the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies
Related Materials:
For more information please see https://libraryguides.etown.edu/spohn.
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Item:
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Item Spohn 1675: Softwood Love Feast or Communion Waiter or Tray],
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Item Spohn 1676: Turned Walnut Bread Paten, c. 1780],
[Item Spohn 1677: Turned Walnut Communion Chalice, c. 1780],
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Item Spohn 1724: Hand Painted Milk Glass Barber's Bottle],
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Item Spohn 1727: Redware Deep Pie Plate],
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Item Spohn 1728: Tin Teapot],
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Item Spohn 2130: Hand-carved Wooden Printer's Woodcut of the Seal of the Ephrata Community, 1766],
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Item Spohn 2224: Hand-carved Woodcut of Initial Block "W", c. 1764],
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All]
- Item Spohn 1677: Turned Walnut Communion Chalice, c. 1780
- Mid-to-Late Eighteenth Century Turned Walnut Communion Chalice, originally from the Ephrata Cloister and later from the Snow Hill Congregation, Quincy, Franklin Co., Pa., pedestaled with round foot having concentric turnings on top surface of foot, stem with suppressed ball-shaped motif, cup with rounded bottom, straight sides with slightly flared rim, 4-1/4"DIA, 8-5/16"H. [Provenance: purchased at public auction, Horst Auction Center, at the public auction of the contents of the "Snow Hill Nunnery", Quincy, Franklin Co., Pa. This chalice was originally from the Ephrata Cloister and was transferred in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century to the Snow Hill Congregation, Quincy, Franklin Co., Pa. The chalice was one of a pair of walnut chalices, two cherry chalices and two walnut bread patens (1 being #1676) originally made for the Ephrata Cloister. One of each remains in the collection of the Ephrata Cloister. One Bread Patten #1676 and this chalice were sold at the public auction of the contents of the Snow Hill Nunnery in August 1997, the other cherry chalice remains in the possession of the Snow Hill Congregation.]
