Large earthenware mug. Hand painted with baskets of flowers on each side. Flowers are brown and gold with blue dots at centers. Hand painted brown lines around inside of rim, outside of rim, and 3/4" from base. Brown inverted "V" pattern painted down handle.
mugs
earthenware
Mug
Mug
"This mug belonged to Sheriff [illegible] of Bow Lake N.H. who used it for cider." (Handwritten in ink on paper label, affixed to bottom of mug)
Unknown
5 1/2 (H), 4 1/8 (diameter) (inches)
Bequest of Miss Margaret Jewell
1970.416
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