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FRANK X. CHAMBERLIN / SALMAGUNDI CLUB China-painted Volkmar mug with Pierrot clowns, a snake handle, "Eat, Drink, and be Merry," to be read while drinking, and caricatures of twelve of its members on the bottom, ca. 1899-1910. Minute fleck to rim, two small firing bruises at rim (from manufacture). Artist's signature. 6" x 5 1/4"
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"Founded in 1871 in New York as a sketching class, the Salmagundi became an artists' club which included at some point Frederick Church, George Inness, and Thomas Moran. Twenty-four mugs, provided by the Volkmar Pottery, were decorated every year, and sold at the library dinners to raise funds. The artist, Frank X. Chamberlin, was a New York-based magazine illustrator who did covers for Pearson's Magazine."
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