Antique Souvenir PItcher-Female Owned Nantucket Store

Here's a little 3 3/4" souvenir pitcher sold by Phebe E. Clisby,Nantucket,Mass.Ms. Clisby's storefront was located in the downtown section of Nantucket called 'Petticoat Row'-a late 19th/early 20th century section of downtown comprised of businesses owned by women.
Here's an article i found on the Nantucket Historical Ass.-
https://nha.org/research/nantucket-history/history-topics/the-real-women-of-petticoat-row/

 

I gotta hand it to ya, Bosko...that's quite a story!
I note the large Japanese fan, an' what looks like 2 Chinese lanterns...imagine what a lot of s**t those ladies had to slog through just to get a high-street address to hawk their wares!

 

True Whit-It's a story worth studying.Might make a good movie too-especially if you could shoe horn in a cameo appearance by Jane Austen ! Alas,the immortal Jane had been dead for 70 years during the heyday of Petticoat Row,but that's never stifled a script writer before.

 

Van Gogh & Singer Sargent and other Impressionists & Post-Impressionists were knocked out by Japanese & Chinese Art-as were the trendy and feisty retailer ladies of Victorian Nantucket.