Decanter

Title:

Hannah Duston

Object Name:

Decanter

Object ID:

1973.064

Creator:

Regal China CorporationCeramicist

Place of Origin:

Antioch, IL

Date:

1973

Description:

Decanter, with cork lid. Porcelain. White molded body with clear glaze. Standing figure of a woman in a neo-classical gown holding a hatchet in her right hand and two scalps in her left hand. She is standing on a tapered rectangular pedestal surmounted by a gold enamel platform. Gown is of burnished brown; arms, shoulders and head are highlighted with brown flesh tones; the hair is red / brown. The hatchet head is highlighted with silver enamel; scalps are highlighted with red.
Front of pedestal reads: "HANNAH DUSTON / GRANITE STATE / HEROINE OF 1697". Silk screened. Applied foil label reads: "GENUINE / REGAL CHINA / HANDCRAFTED" in circle on left side of label, "4/5 QUART BEAM 86 PROOF / KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY / 180 MONTHS OLD" across front of label. "BOTTLED BY JAMES B. BEAM DISTILLING CO. BEAM, KENTUCKY". Silk screened on back of pedestal: "FIRST WOMAN HONORED / BY A STATUE IN THE / UNITED STATES - 1874 / Led massacre & scalping / of ten Indians at Boscawen, / New Hampshire, & escaped / back to her Haverhill, Mass. / family."
Stamped on the bottom: "@CREATION OF JAMES B. BEAM / DISTILLING CO. / KY - 230 / GENUINE REGAL CHINA 1973 / C. MILLER / REGAL CHINA CORPORATION / 145 / LIQUOR BOTTLE / DHN".

Material:

Ceramic
Porcelain

Dimensions:

H-14.6 W-4.3 D-3 inches

Provenance:

Commissioned and sold by the New Hampshire State Liquor Commission. The donor, Leon W. Anderson, was the Legislative Historian, and authored a pamphlet to go with the bottle, "Hannah Duston, Heroine of 1697 Massacre of Indian Captors on River Islet at Boscawen, N.H."The bottle was the third in a series of historic bottles by Jim Beam Distillers.

Credit Line:

Gift of Leon W. Anderson

People:

Dustin, Hannah (1657-1736), Anderson, Leon W. (1902-1983)

Subjects:

Ceramics, Decanters, Hatchets, Porcelain, Scalping, Scalps, Dustin, Hannah