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Earthenware children's mug. Cylindrical with loop handle and leaf terminals. Blue transfer print with inscription flanked by two scenes. At left, a farm landscape with house and team of oxen. At right, a white woman and a white girl giving alms to a seated Black man.
mugs
earthenware
transfer printing
Mug
"FLOWERS THAT NEVER FADE. / PIETY. / While God regards the wise & fair / The noble & the brave, / He listens to the beggar's prayer, / And the poor Negro slave." (Blue transfer print)
MJ1970.581
Unknown
2 1/2 (H), 2 3/4 (diameter) (inches)
Bequest of Miss Margaret Jewell
1970.1310.581
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