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Railway Mug
Factory: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
Pale cream lead-glazed earthenware, transfer-printed underglaze in brown, and painted overglaze in green and dark pink enamels. The cylindrical mug has a slightly concave base and an angular strap handle. The exterior is decorated at the top with a Gothic style border, below which is a railway-train travelling to the left through a landscape with hills, trees and bushes, a cottage, and a church with a spire. The locomotive, labelled 'JACO', is followed by a small open tender for the coal, two closed first-class passenger carriages, and a barouche and four occupants on an open truck. The back of the handle is decorated with a vertical row of beading reserved in a brown ground enclosed by an elongated oval line.
History note: Mr Hyam 158 Brompton Road SW from whom purchased on June 6, 1911 for £5 with four other mugs by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 10.3 cm
Width: 13.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century, Mid#
Victoria I
Circa
1835
CE
-
1840
CE
Decoration
composed of
ceramic printing colour
( brown)
enamel
( green and dark pink)
Base
Diameter 9.8 cm
pale cream
Earthenware
Lead-glaze
Accession number: C.1149-1928
Primary reference Number: 71415
Old object number: 3407
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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