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Factory: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
White salt-glazed stoneware
Off-white salt-glazed stoneware, thrown. Cylindrical with slightly waisted sides, and loop handle with an upward kick at the lower end
History note: Lady Harvey; Mr Stoner, London, who gave it to Dr Glaisher on 17 June 1912
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 3.7 cm
Width: 4.6 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
Mid 18th Century
George II or George III
Circa
1745
-
1770
Miniature tableware was produced by salt-glazed stoneware potters as children's toys.
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Body
Accession number: C.491-1928
Primary reference Number: 75275
Old object number: 3547
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/75275 Accessed: 2023-03-25 02:40:59
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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|title=Toy mug
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-03-25 02:40:59|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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