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Large coffee cup
Paul Revere Pottery of the Saturday Evening Girls club (active 1908–1942)
American
about 1924
Object Place: Boston, Massachusetts
Medium/Technique
Earthenware
Dimensions
6.1 x 13.4 cm (2 3/8 x 5 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Storrow Family
Accession Number1999.539a
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsCeramics – Pottery – Earthenware
DescriptionGlazed coffee cup of rounded form with off-white lower section and blue upper section, with central polychrome medallion, opposite blue loop handle, embellished with a goose in a landscape and the initials "JJS" in black; interior off-white.
ProvenanceCommissioned by Helen (Mrs. James J.) Storrow, the founder and benefactor of the pottery, for her family table; the service descended to Helen's son, James, and then to her grandson, James Storrow; to MFA, 1999, gift of James Storrow.