F and S MM Pitcher

Item

Identifier: CFC2019.0265.1

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Carlson Fable Collection is a gathering of primary fable materials at Reinert Alumni Memorial Library at Creighton University. It grew out of the personal collection of fable materials gathered by Rev. Gregory Carlson, S.J. and was given to the Creighton Libraries in 1996. There are more than 10,000 books and approximately 8,000 artifacts in the collection.

From plates to stamps, from cards to whiskey decanters, from toys to posters, you'll find just about anything you can imagine here. Please explore all that is to offer here in my fables Catalogue of Objects.

This is the largest online catalog of fable related objects on the internet. Many are from Aesop's Fables but you will find La Fontaine, Velazquez and Krylov also represented in this collection.

Dates

1996

Extent

.5 Linear Feet : A pitcher 7½" high with the same brown ceramic and the same unpainted floral pattern. The image here under the "Fables de La Fontaine" signature is of MM, the same MM image as the handleless bowl in the Ivy Pattern series. On the other side of the pitcher is a panel offering four lines from late in the fable. ; 7½" high

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

I presume that this is especially meant as a milk pitcher, but the fable does not augur well for the fate of this pitcher. It is after all differently shaped from the pitcher in the image!