Mug
Paul Revere Pottery of the Saturday Evening Girls club
(active 1908–1942)
Sara Galner
(American, born Austria–Hungary, 1894–1982)
December 1914
Object PlaceBoston, Massachusetts
Medium/TechniqueEarthenware with glaze
DimensionsOverall: 10.8 x 9.5 x 8.3 cm (4 1/4 x 3 3/4 x 3 1/4 in.)
Credit LineGift of Dr. David L. Bloom and family in honor of his mother, Sara Galner Bloom
Accession number2007.373
On View
Not on viewClassificationsCeramics
Collections
Volunteers read to the girls as they worked at the pottery. The mug is inscribed, "In the forest must always be a nightingale & in the soul a faith so faithful that it comes back even after it has been slain," a verse from the 1910 play Chantecler by Edmond Rostand.
Inscriptionsmotto on exterior of mug: "THE.FOREST.MUST.ALWAYS. / BE.A.NIGHTINGALE. / &.IN.THE.SOUL / A.FAITH.SO / FAITHFUL.THAT / IT.COMES.BACK/ EVEN.AFTER.IT / HAS.BEEN / SLAIN"
on bottom: "S.E.G. / 12.14 / S. / G."ProvenanceEarly history unknown; some time between 1995 and 2005, acquired by Dr. David L. Bloom, Morristown, NJ, then Boston, MA on eBay.com; given by Dr. David L. Bloom to the MFA (Accession date: XXXX)
CopyrightReproduced with permission.
