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Success to the crooked but interesting Town of Boston pitcher

Success to the crooked but interesting Town of Boston pitcher Earthenware

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    Earthenware, [between 1790 and 1800]

    14.3 cm H x 10.7 cm diam. (base) x 9.9 cm diameter (rim)

    China 01.017


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    [ This description is from the project: Object of History, 2013 Exhibit ]

    While modern readers can be forgiven for assuming the motto refers to her politicians, it actually refers to Boston’s streets, notoriously winding and difficult as the 1664 report by the Royal Commissioners attested: “Their houses are generally wooden, their streets crooked with little decency and no uniformity” (quoted in Caleb H Snow's A History of Boston, 1828).