[Tea cup and saucer, and bowl]
Title:
[Tea cup and saucer, and bowl]
Description:
In 1889, reformer Jane Addams and bookbinder Ellen Gates Starr founded the Hull-House social settlement in an immigrant neighborhood in Chicago. Hull-House members provided English classes, art clubs, kindergarten, libraries, and activities for the neighborhood and worked for social reform. Hull-House Kilns was a commercial pottery associated with their art school. Many of the staff and potters were recent Mexican immigrants. The collection holds four tea cups with matching saucers and a small serving bowl. All are stamped “Hull House Kilns, Chicago.” The items are in the style of Myrtle Merritt French, one of the founders of the pottery.
Creator:
Hull-House Kilns
Date:
1927
Coverage:
Chicago
Display Date:
[ca. 1927-1937]
Hover Text:
Jane Addams, Ellen Gates Starr, and Hull-House social settlement
Published Item:
U
Item Index:
27
Item Sort:
1900s
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