Earthenware children's mug. Black transfer-printed image with yellow, green and red over-painting. Image of a young man shoveling grain, whose clothes are accented with overpainting. A complementary image is of a house and another young man shoveling dirt; the roof and door of the house is accented in yellow.
mugs
earthenware
transfer printing
overpainting (technique)
Knickknack
Mug, Decorative
Mug, Decorative
"THE HISTORY OF THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT/ This is the House/ that Jack built/ This is the Malt that lay in the/ House that Jack built." (Transfer-printed)
MJ1970.840
Unknown
2 1/4 (H), 2 1/4 (diameter) (inches)
Bequest of Miss Margaret Jewell
1970.1310.840
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