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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 138, The Harry and Carol Djanogly Gallery

Mug

ca. 1780-1790 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Mug in lead-glazed earthenware and moulded in the form of a bearded satyr's head crowned with a wreath of vine-leaves and grapes spreading from an olive-green loop handle in the form of a vine branch, and with an oval base with a moulded border of rope-pattern, and the hair and ears of the satyr and the grapes are coloured in various shades of brown, and the leaves and the base are leaf-green.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Lead-glazed earthenware and moulded
Brief description
Mug in lead-glazed earthenware and moulded in the form of a bearded satyr's head crowned with a wreath of vine-leaves and grapes, maker unknown, made in Staffordshire, ca. 1780-1790.
Physical description
Mug in lead-glazed earthenware and moulded in the form of a bearded satyr's head crowned with a wreath of vine-leaves and grapes spreading from an olive-green loop handle in the form of a vine branch, and with an oval base with a moulded border of rope-pattern, and the hair and ears of the satyr and the grapes are coloured in various shades of brown, and the leaves and the base are leaf-green.
Dimensions
  • Height: 10.2cm
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Object history
One of two mugs with 414:1075-1885 (Sch. II 288).
Subjects depicted
Other number
Sch. II 288A - Schreiber number
Collection
Accession number
414:1075/A-1885

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Record createdMarch 6, 2009
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