Mug
ca. 1750 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
One man and three women hay-making with rakes and a fork. A seated man drinks from a bottle in a landscape with sponged trees, a house and a wind-mill. The handle is painted on the upper part with foliate ornament following the moulded design beneath. The middle part has flower sprays and the lower part has a modelled fleur-de-lys which is partly broken. All the decoration is in blue.
Body colour: Buff.
Condition: Part of foot restored.
Glaze: White and slightly crazed.
Shape: Low relief moulded design on upper part of handle, which is slightly rounded on the inside and concave on the outside. The top of the handle has a housing, now broken, for a lid pivot. The base has only a low foot-rim. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)
Body colour: Buff.
Condition: Part of foot restored.
Glaze: White and slightly crazed.
Shape: Low relief moulded design on upper part of handle, which is slightly rounded on the inside and concave on the outside. The top of the handle has a housing, now broken, for a lid pivot. The base has only a low foot-rim. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware, painted |
| Brief description | Figures hay-making in a landscape |
| Physical description | One man and three women hay-making with rakes and a fork. A seated man drinks from a bottle in a landscape with sponged trees, a house and a wind-mill. The handle is painted on the upper part with foliate ornament following the moulded design beneath. The middle part has flower sprays and the lower part has a modelled fleur-de-lys which is partly broken. All the decoration is in blue. Body colour: Buff. Condition: Part of foot restored. Glaze: White and slightly crazed. Shape: Low relief moulded design on upper part of handle, which is slightly rounded on the inside and concave on the outside. The top of the handle has a housing, now broken, for a lid pivot. The base has only a low foot-rim. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997) |
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| Credit line | Mellor Bequest |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Bibliographic reference | Archer, Michael. Delftware: the tin-glazed earthenware of the British Isles. A catalogue of the collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: HMSO, in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1997. ISBN 0 11 290499 8 |
| Other number | C19. - <u>Delftware</u> (1997) cat. no. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | CIRC.68-1963 |
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| Record created | January 29, 2000 |
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