Mug

Paul Revere Pottery of the Saturday Evening Girls club (active 1908–1942)
Decorated by: Sara Galner (American, born Austria–Hungary, 1894–1982)

December 1914

Object Place: Boston, Massachusetts

Medium/Technique Earthenware with glaze

Dimensions Overall: 10.8 x 9.5 x 8.3 cm (4 1/4 x 3 3/4 x 3 1/4 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Dr. David L. Bloom and family in honor of his mother, Sara Galner Bloom

Accession Number2007.373

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAmericas

ClassificationsCeramics – Pottery – Earthenware

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.

DescriptionGreen mug decorated with motto and trees.

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)