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Large Mug

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

1740-1750

GUSN

GUSN-10862

Description

Tall cylindrical shaped brown stonewall mug covered with iridescent salt glaze; incised reeding near base and top and strap handle.

Details

Descriptive Terms

mugs
incising
glazing (coating)
salt glaze
stoneware (pottery)
turning (shaping process)
Stoneware
Turned
Incised
Salt-Glazed
MUG

Inscription

Handwritten paper label located bottom underside. ""English/Nottingham/Stoneware/c. 1750"".

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

7 x 5.75 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1992.613

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