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Date1830-1860
Terms
- Mugs
- Ceramic
- Staffordshire
Dimensions5.08 × 5.08 cm (2 × 2 in.)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. William Kussin, B. Alcott Pratt and F.W. Pratt in memory of their mother, Mrs. F. Alcott Pratt (1935)
Object numberC1191
DescriptionEarthenware. Handle leafed top and bottom. One side reads: Being lessons for youth on Industry, Temperance, Frugality, &c. Other side reads: The Way to wealth or Dr. Franklin's Poor Richard Illustrated. Front, a sheep shearing scene, reading: "He that by the plough would thrive/ himself must either hold or drive/ The eye of the master will do more/ work than both his hands".