Factory: uncertain
Earthenware, painted painted underglaze in blue
Pale creamware, painted underglaze in blue. Cylindrical tapering body with a wide moulded base, and a loop handle. Decorated on the front with a double curved frame enclosing a seated woman in profile to right drinking tea at a small tea table, on which is a teapot, milk jug, sugar basin, spoon tray and spoon and tongues (?). Above is the inscription 'Drinking Green/Tea'. Outside the panel on the right is the name and date, 'Nan/ny Hartley/1780'. Below the rim is a narrow trellis border with crosses at the intersections of the lines.
History note: Mr Stoner, York Street, Westminster, from whom purchased for £8.10 on 11 June 1910 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 12.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Late
George III
Production date:
AD 1780
: dated
Sheila Bidgood and Peter Walton (1990) suggested that this might be a Nanny Hartley born at Baildon, Yorkshire in 1754. In Rackham's Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection (1935) it was suggested that perhaps Nanny was a relative of William Hartley, a partner in the Leeds Pottery, and that 'Drinking Green Tea' was a play on the name of his associates named Green. This assumed that the mug came from the Leeds pottery, which is not entirely certain.
Decoration
composed of
cobalt
Body
off-white
Earthenware
tinted very slightly blue
Lead-glaze
Accession number: C.1068-1928
Primary reference Number: 137241
Old object number: 3137
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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