Mug
1800 (made)
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| Place of origin |
Mug of earthenware transfer-printed in black, and cylindrical in shape with a flat loop handle. On the front is a round medallion inscribed below with 'A FRENCH FAMILY' and depicting a man and his wife and three children dancing in a room to music played by a fiddler on one side and a man with a pipe and tabour and dancing dogs on the other side.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Earthenware transfer-printed in black |
| Brief description | Mug of earthenware transfer-printed in black, and cylindrical in shape with a flat loop handle, possibly made and printed by John Aynsley & Sons Ltd., Staffordshire, ca. 1800. |
| Physical description | Mug of earthenware transfer-printed in black, and cylindrical in shape with a flat loop handle. On the front is a round medallion inscribed below with 'A FRENCH FAMILY' and depicting a man and his wife and three children dancing in a room to music played by a fiddler on one side and a man with a pipe and tabour and dancing dogs on the other side. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'A FRENCH FAMILY' (Inscribed below the medallion) |
| Credit line | Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber |
| Object history | The print is after a caricature by Thomas Rowlandson. |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Other number | Sch. II 361 - Schreiber number |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 414:1101-1885 |
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| Record created | April 30, 2009 |
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