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Children's Mug

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

1810

GUSN

GUSN-43457

Description

Creamware children's mug. Maroon transfer-printed design, farm scene. Figure in the foreground tilling land to the left and another figure also in the foreground, but to the right sitting on a stool milking a cow. Pink luster accents the upper lip of mug, slightly above upper lower rim and along the center of handle.

Details

Descriptive Terms

mugs
earthenware
creamware
transfer printing
lusterware
Mug
Mug

Inscription

"Present/ for a good/ Girl." (Overlaid white label, superimposed over the scene. Transfer-printed in maroon)

Additional Identification Number

MJ1970.254

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

2 1/2 (H), 2 1/2 (diameter) (inches)

Credit Line

Bequest of Miss Margaret Jewell

Accession Number

1970.1310.254

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