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Production: Unidentified Burslem pottery
Greyish-buff stoneware with brown dip on the upper part; handle missing
Greyish-buff stoneware, thrown, turned, and dipped brown on the upper part before salt-glazing. The mug is cylindrical with two turned raised bands above the base and an indented line below the rim. On one side there are the two stumps of the handle.
History note: Probably excavated at Burslem
Exchanged with Stoke-on-Trent Museum
Height: 6.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Exchanged (1943) by The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery
18th Century, Early#
George I
Production date:
circa
AD 1720
: date doubtful, possibly later
Upper Part
composed of
dip
( dark brown)
Surface
composed of
salt
Base
Diameter 5.7 cm
Lower Part
greyish-buff Stoneware
Throwing
: Greyish-buff stoneware, thrown and turned, the upper part dipped dark brown, before salt-glazing
Salt-glazing
Accession number: EC.30-1943
Primary reference Number: 76937
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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