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Wellington and Blucher commemorative mug
Factory: uncertain
Grey-white stoneware mug with applied reliefs on blue slip ground, glazed.
Large, cylindrical, straight-sided mug having ear-shaped stap handle with inward and outward spurs. On the outside a turned band of white at top and bottom framing a blue-slipped ground. Opposite the handle a caduceus (a short staff entwined by two serpents, surmounted by wings) above clasped hands and two cornucopiae over a label inscribed ‘PEACE & PLENTY’. To the right is a bust of Wellington over a label inscribed ‘WELLINGTON’, and on the left a bust of Blucher over a label inscribed ‘BLUCHER’. The inscriptions are impressed and coloured black. Below the rim is a continuous spray of fruiting vine. The outside and inside are lightly glazed. The underside is flat with a slight foot-rim and unglazed.
Given by Mrs Elizabeth Ruhlmann
Diameter: 11.7 cm
Height: 11.0 cm
Width: 16.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1991) by Ruhlman, Elizabeth, Mrs
19th Century, Early#
George III
Production date:
circa
AD 1815
The reliefs resemble those on a MIST-type feldspathic stoneware jug attributed to Chetham & Woolley (under management of Ann Chetham after James Woolley left to set up on his own in the old Turner factory in 1809).
Lettering
composed of
enamel
( black)
Background
composed of
slip
( blue)
Decoration
composed of
glaze
Forming
: Smear-glazed white (greyish) stoneware with applied white reliefs, blue slipped background, and black enamel lettering
Glazing (coating)
Inscription present: rectangular
Accession number: C.394-1991
Primary reference Number: 74780
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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