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1921 SEG Saturday Evening Girls Paul Revere Pottery Bowl. 6 3/8" wide x 2.75"<br>tall with no cracks, chips or restorations.<br><br><br><br>The Paul Revere pottery was one of the important art potteries of the Boston<br>area in the early 1900s, joining the ranks of the Chelsea Keramic Art Works,<br>Grueby Pottery, and Marblehead Pottery. It was founded initially as an<br>association known as the "Saturday Evening Girls," whose purpose was to educate<br>and train young Irish and Italian immigrant girls of Boston's North End. Like a<br>number of potteries that started out as vocational workshops, the Saturday<br>Evening Girls began producing pottery in 1906, and their output was primarily<br>dinnerware, decorated with a band of simple repeated motifs of stylized animals<br>or birds, often in combination with nursery rhymes or mottoes. A very few of the<br>decorators, however, like Sara Galner who decorated this vase, became highly<br>skilled, executing striking floral designs that transcend functional use. Here,<br>she interpreted Queen Anne's lace in a stylized manner with a heavy black<br>outline from several points of view and at varying stages of bloom. Typical of<br>Paul Revere pottery, the design was set on a solid matte ground. This one<br>distinguishes itself by the very effective ground of broad bands of color<br>stepping from white through three shades of blue to a grayish yellow-green that<br>almost merges with the plants foliage revealing the influence of tonalist artist<br>Arthur Wesley Dow.<br><br>tw119
