Earthenware children's mug. Brown transfer print with two classically draped women standing on either side of a shield. The woman on the left holds a sword in one hand and a balanced scale in the other. The central shield has a scrolled border and features several images: an hourglass, a hand, a skull and crossbones, a houseboat (ark), a dove with olive branch, a lamb, and a lion. With hand painted blue lines around rim and base.
mugs
earthenware
transfer printing
Mug
Mug
"UNION __ " [illegible] (Brown transfer print.)
MJ1970.125
Unknown
2 7/8 (H), 3 1/8 (diameter) (inches)
Bequest of Miss Margaret Jewell
1970.1310.125
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