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Railway Mug
Production: William Cooper & Co.
White lead-glazed earthenware transfer-printed underglaze in brown, and painted overglaze in green and dark pink enamels. The cylindrical mug has a recessed base, and an ear-shaped handle with a slightly projecting thumbpiece at the top, and another porjection lower down. The exterior is decorated with a railway-train going to the right through a landscape with hills, trees, a farmouse, a country house and a church with a spire. The engine is labelled NERO and is followed by a coal truck on which ride the driver and his mate, two closed passenger carriages with luggage on the roof, a brougham with two persons on the box on an open truck, and a guard's van with a Staffordshire Knot on the side. Inside the upper part there is a broad brown scale border with pendant stylized leaves, and down the back of the handle is a vertical brown Gothic style border. The base is printed in brown with the maker's initials, 'W.C. & Co' with above on a wavy ribbon, the pattern name, 'RAILWAY'.
History note: Bought at Plymouth by Mrs W.D. Dickson of Bournemouth, who gave it in 1926 as part of a Christmas present to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 10.3 cm
Width: 13 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Circa 1850 CE - 18 CE
The North Staffordshire Railway was opened in late 1849.
Decoration
composed of
ceramic printing colour
( brown)
enamel
( green and dark pink)
Base
Diameter 9.5 cm
Handle
white
Earthenware
Lead-glaze
Accession number: C.776-1928
Primary reference Number: 76038
Old object number: 4790
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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