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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 numberC1209
DescriptionEarthenware. Printed in black with design in lavendar, puce & yellow & green. At one side, a woodcutter's scene; on the other side, chopping a tree. In front: Franklin's Maxim's/ Handle your tools without mittens/ Remember the cat in gloves catches no mice/ Constant dropping wears away stones/ Little strokes fell big oaks."