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Earthenware children's mug (pearlware). Cylindrical with loop handle and leaf terminals. Black transfer printed "Franklin's Maxims" inscription flanked by pastoral scenes - a woman using a spinning wheel at left, and two men with farm animals at right.
mugs
earthenware
transfer printing
Mug
"DR. FRANKLIN'S MAXIMS / Fly Pleasure and it will follow / you the dilligent spin - / ner has a large shift. / Now I have a Sheep and / a Cow every body bids / me good Morning"
(Black transfer print)
MJ1970.283
Unknown
2 1/8 (H), 2 1/2 (diameter) (inches)
Bequest of Miss Margaret Jewell
1970.1310.284
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