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Paul Revere Pottery of the Saturday Evening Girls club
(active 1908–1942)
Sara Galner
(American, born Austria–Hungary, 1894–1982)
February 1917
Object PlaceBoston, Massachusetts
Medium/TechniqueEarthenware with glaze
DimensionsOverall: 15.9 x 10.8 x 0.6 cm (6 1/4 x 4 1/4 x 1/4 in.)
Credit LineGift of Dr. David L. Bloom and family in honor of his mother, Sara Galner Bloom
Accession number2007.374
On View
Not on viewClassificationsCeramics
Collections
The Saturday Evening Girls Club (SEG) was established in 1899 to provide cultural activities for immigrant girls of Italian and Jewish heritage living in the tenements of Boston's North End. In 1908, the reform-minded club leaders founded a pottery to provide the girls with a clean and educational venue to earn money. They named the enterprise the Paul Revere Pottery due to its location in the historic North End, and its proximity to the Old North Church, where the lanterns immortalized by Longfellow's "Paul Revere's Ride" hung.
Inscriptionsmotto: "STRUCK / OUT / BY.A. / STEED / FLYING.FEARLESS.&.FLEET"
on bottom: "S.E.G. / 2–17 / S. / G."ProvenanceEarly history unknown; some time between 1987 and 2005, acquired by Dr. David L. Bloom, Morristown, NJ, then Boston, MA; given by Dr. David L. Bloom to the MFA (Accession date: XXXX)
CopyrightReproduced with permission.
