Earthenware mug. Faded black transfer printed image of a "Scene from Hamlet." A man leans on a shovel in a graveyard, with bones and a skull on the ground. Mug is hand painted with a black band around the rim.
mugs
earthenware
transfer printing
Mug
Mug
"Scene from HAMLET" (Black transfer print (faded).)
MJ1970.303
Unknown
4 3/4 (H), 3 (diameter) (inches)
Bequest of Miss Margaret Jewell
1970.1310.303
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