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Production: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery
Red dry-bodied stoneware with applied mould-applied reliefs. Cylindrical with thin sides and an applied rounded loop handle. The exterior is decorated with a vine branch with three leaves and two bunches of grapes. The outlines of the moulds are clearly visible around the motifs.
History note: Lady Harvey (Magdalene Breadalbane, née Pringle) , 19 Marsefield Gardens, South Hampstead, N.W. London; Mr George Stoner, London, who had purchased her collection; given by him in 1912 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 5 cm
Width: 6.2 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Third quarter of 18th century
George II or George III
Production date:
circa
AD 1760
: Glaisher considered that the mug was Elers period
Rim
Decoration
Inscription present: rectangular white paper label with cut upper corners and red border
Accession number: C.457-1928
Primary reference Number: 75167
Old object number: 3548
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Toy mug" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75167 Accessed: 2023-06-08 07:20:22
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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|title=Toy mug
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-08 07:20:22|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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