English stoneware mug with a herring bone pattern

An image of Mug. Unknown maker, England, Nottingham. The mug is cylindrical but slightly flattened where the handle has been pushed to make it adhere to the side. Around the middle there is a wide band of complex herring bone pattern applied with a roulette. The vertically reeded strap handle has a flattened kick at the lower end which was applied over the rouletted band. Brown stoneware, thrown, turned, and rouletted, with an applied reeded handle, and salt-glaze. The surface has a very high lustrous sheen. Height, whole, 9.3 cm, width, whole, 9.2 cm, diameter, base, 7 cm, circa 1755-1770. Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest.

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Mug. Unknown maker, England, Nottingham. The mug is cylindrical but slightly flattened where the handle has been pushed to make it adhere to the side. Around the middle there is a wide band of complex herring bone pattern applied with a roulette. The vertically reeded strap handle has a flattened kick at the lower end which was applied over the rouletted band. Brown stoneware, thrown, turned, and rouletted, with an applied reeded handle, and salt-glaze. The surface has a very high lustrous sheen. Height, whole, 9.3 cm, width, whole, 9.2 cm, diameter, base, 7 cm, circa 1755-1770. Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor Bequest.

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Accession Number: C.94-2015
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/19.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Katie Young
Image height: 977 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 110.76kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 19/1

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18th Century _WF_Batchelor brown cylindrical drinking vessel English Fitz_AA Georgian glazed handle handled mugs Nottingham Pottery pottery roulette rouletted salt-glazed saltglaze stoneware tankard thrown turned vessel

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