Salmagundi Club Mug
Date1902
Designer
Howard Pyle
(American illustrator, 1853–1911)
MediumCeramic
Dimensions5 15/16 × 5 5/8 × 4 5/8 in. (15.1 × 14.3 × 11.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Willard S. Morse, 1925
Object number1925-303
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDECORATIVE ARTS
Label TextThis is one of 24 mugs designed by artists for the annual auction to benefit the library of the Salmagundi Club in 1902. It sold for $100 to a Mr. W. E. Baillie of Bridgeport, Connecticut, who "could hardly be induced to part with it; in fact, it could not be bought for one thousand dollars."
