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Tortoise and hare plate

Paul Revere Pottery of the Saturday Evening Girls club (active 1908–1942)

Albina Mangini (American)

March 1913

Object PlaceBoston, Massachussets

Medium/TechniqueWheel-thrown earthenware with glaze and cuerda seca decoration

DimensionsOverall: 1.9 x 19.7 cm (3/4 x 7 3/4 in.)

Credit LineGift of Christopher and Jane Deering in memory of Helen Marie Bruno Deering

Accession number2014.1087

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ClassificationsCeramics

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InscriptionsIntegral with the decoration on the rim of the plate: "NOR THE BATTLE TO THE STRONG"; painted in black on back of plate: "A [over] M [with vertical line next to it] 3 - 13 / S.E.G."ProvenanceDescended in the Cassassa-Bruno family to Helen Marie Bruno Deering, 1910-1996 (presumably from her mother, Vaine Cassassa Bruno, d. 1971); 1996, inherited by Christopher and Jane Deering, Gloucester, Massachusetts; 2014, gift of Christopher and Jane Deering to the MFA. (Accession date: September 24, 2014)