Plate
Paul Revere Pottery of the Saturday Evening Girls club
(active 1908–1942)
Sara Galner
(American, born Austria–Hungary, 1894–1982)
May 1912
Object PlaceBoston, Massachusetts
Medium/TechniqueEarthenware with glaze
DimensionsOverall: 17.5 x 17.5 x 1.3 cm (6 7/8 x 6 7/8 x 1/2 in.)
Credit LineGift of Dr. David L. Bloom and family in honor of his mother, Sara Galner Bloom
Accession number2007.377
On View
Not on viewClassificationsCeramics
Collections
Some pottery was decorated with popular nursery rhymes or moralistic adages. This plate depicts a fussy hen and reads: "O, DON'T BOTHER ME," SAID THE HEN WITH ONE CHICK.
Inscriptions"113.5.12 / S.E.G. / S. / G."ProvenanceEarly history unknown; in the late 1980s or early 1990s, acquired by Dr. David L. Bloom, Morristown, NJ, then Boston, MA for $1,200 as the first piece he purchased for his collection; given by Dr. David L. Bloom to the MFA (Accession date: XXXX)
CopyrightReproduced with permission.
