Tile

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

February 1917

Object Place: Boston, Massachusetts

Medium/Technique Earthenware with glaze

Dimensions Overall: 15.9 x 10.8 x 0.6 cm (6 1/4 x 4 1/4 x 1/4 in.)

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

Accession Number2007.374

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAmericas

ClassificationsCeramics – Pottery – Earthenware

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.

DescriptionTile decorated with Paul Revere with motto.

Inscriptionsmotto: "STRUCK / OUT / BY.A. / STEED / FLYING.FEARLESS.&.FLEET"
on bottom: "S.E.G. / 2–17 / S. / G."

ProvenanceBetween 1987 and 2005, acquired by Dr. David L. Bloom (b. 1930 – d. 2020), Boston; 2007, gift of Dr. David L. Bloom to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 27, 2007)