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Children's Mug

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

1815

GUSN

GUSN-44315

Description

Children's earthenware mug. Blue transfer-printed design. Family playing on one side of the mug with a small sailboat and on the other a dee lays on the brush.

Details

Descriptive Terms

mugs
earthenware
transfer printing
Knickknack
Mug, Decorative
Mug, Decorative

Inscription

"PLEASURE/ AT/ HOME" (Transfer-printed)
"I've learnt to look with lover's eyes/ On home, sweet home" (printed)
"See the stricken deer/ [illeg.] the huntsman near."

Additional Identification Number

MJ1970.1151

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

2 1/4 (H), 2 1/2 (diameter) (inches)

Credit Line

Bequest of Miss Margaret Jewell

Accession Number

1970.1310.1151

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