Mug
ca.1830 (made)
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This mug shows a marbled decoration. This was achieved by applying different coloured slips (liquid clay) to an earthenware body. The slips could then be worked through, such as by dragging a comb, to create marbled patterning. In appearance marbled wares are similar to earlier agate-ware. Agate-ware involved wedging different coloured clays together to form the body. The patterning was therefore solid throughout rather than being a marbled covering. Agate-ware was more time-consuming and expensive to perfect than surface marbling and was mainly produced during the early to mid eighteenth century, whereas marbling continued into the early nineteenth century.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Earthenware with marbled decoration |
| Brief description | Mug with marbled decoration, Spode, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, about 1830 |
| Physical description | Mug, decorated with marbling in white and coloured clays. Cylindrical with moulded base. Made in a two-piece mould from clay covered with the surface marbling as mould join is evident inside with marbling smoothed over. |
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| Production type | Mass produced |
| Credit line | Transferred from the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street |
| Object history | Given by W. H. Goss, Esq. Transferred from the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street. |
| Production | This mug was given to Jermyn Street by W.H.Goss and catalogued there as Spode. One can assume that, with Goss' connections with the potteries, the attribution is correct. |
| Summary | This mug shows a marbled decoration. This was achieved by applying different coloured slips (liquid clay) to an earthenware body. The slips could then be worked through, such as by dragging a comb, to create marbled patterning. In appearance marbled wares are similar to earlier agate-ware. Agate-ware involved wedging different coloured clays together to form the body. The patterning was therefore solid throughout rather than being a marbled covering. Agate-ware was more time-consuming and expensive to perfect than surface marbling and was mainly produced during the early to mid eighteenth century, whereas marbling continued into the early nineteenth century. |
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| Accession number | 2608-1901 |
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| Record created | January 29, 2009 |
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