STAMPED "JOHN BELL" WAYNESBORO, PENNSYLVANIA EARTHENWARE / REDWARE MINIATURE JELLY / FOOD MOLD, lead-glazed and manganese-decorated with complex olive-green and orange mottling, straight ten-lobed body with shallow central swirled interior molding, made with no center post, unglazed flat base. John Bell, Waynesboro, PA. 1840-1880. 2 1/8" H, 4 1/8" D.
Literature: Comstock - Pottery of the Shenandoah Valley Region, p. 138. fig. 4.168.
Catalogue Note: Comstock notes that this "jelly mold", likely the smallest style of redware food mold made by Bell, was made without a central tube, a design feature which apparently would have "imparted a solid appearance to its contents when turned out". This particular example has a better-than-average glaze and an outstandingly crisp "JOHN BELL" stamp, which Bell used from 1840 onwards at his Waynesboro shop. 

Outstanding, nearly undamaged condition with minor surface wear to exterior rim and with minute area of glaze loss to central interior "point".