Earthenware children's mug. A traveling musician is playing a pipe and small figures in the foreground are dancing. Brown transfer-printed design with overpainting in yellow, orange and green. Orange painted line on the upper rim of the mug.
mugs
earthenware
transfer printing
overpainting (technique)
Mug
"To tabour and pipe my figurines dance. Through England Ireland Scotland/ France." (Transfer-printed)
MJ1970.939
Unknown
2 (H), 2 1/2 (diameter) (inches)
Bequest of Miss Margaret Jewell
1970.1310.939
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