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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. 1800 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Mug of earthenware transfer-printed in black enamel and painted over the glaze. Cylindrical in shape and with a flat loop handle. On the front is a print painted over in red, yellow, blue and green and inscribed 'AN EAST VIEW OF LIVERPOOL LIGHT HOUSE AND SIGNALS ON BIDSTON HILL'. Various flags on each side of the lighthouse are numbered one to fifty-eight and below it is a list with names of shipowners and types of ships corresponding to the numbers. Underneath these is the inscription 'Mr. Thompson's a Red Flag over a White one on Mr. Wilding's Pole / For more that four Vessels of one kind a flag on the proper Staff / N. Formby Channel Distress-S. Rock Channel Distress.'.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Earthenware transfer-printed in black enamel and painted over the glaze
Brief description
Mug of earthenware transfer-printed in black enamel and painted over the glaze, Liverpool, ca. 1800.
Physical description
Mug of earthenware transfer-printed in black enamel and painted over the glaze. Cylindrical in shape and with a flat loop handle. On the front is a print painted over in red, yellow, blue and green and inscribed 'AN EAST VIEW OF LIVERPOOL LIGHT HOUSE AND SIGNALS ON BIDSTON HILL'. Various flags on each side of the lighthouse are numbered one to fifty-eight and below it is a list with names of shipowners and types of ships corresponding to the numbers. Underneath these is the inscription 'Mr. Thompson's a Red Flag over a White one on Mr. Wilding's Pole / For more that four Vessels of one kind a flag on the proper Staff / N. Formby Channel Distress-S. Rock Channel Distress.'.
Dimensions
  • Height: 8.9cm
  • Diameter: 7.3cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'AN EAST VIEW OF LIVERPOOL LIGHT HOUSE AND SIGNALS ON BIDSTON HILL'. (Inscribed on the front of the print)
  • '1. Mr. Clark's / 2. Mr. Layland's / 3. Mr. Dawson's / 4. Mr. Watt's / 5. Mr. Humble's / 6. Mr. Fisher's / 7. Mr. Bolton's / 8. Mr. Ingram's / 9. Mr. G. Hall's / 10. Mr. Ashton's / 11. Mr. Blackburn's / 12. Mr. Kenyon's / 13. Mr. Bent's 14. / Mr. Moss's / 15. Mess. Blackhouse & R. / 16. Mr. Dickson's / 17. Mess. I. & T. Hudson's / 18. Mess. Tarlton & Riggs / 19. Mess. Brown & Forbes's / 20. Mess. Nielson & H. / 21. Mess. G. &. H. Brown's / 22. Mess. J. &. R. Myers / 23. Mr. Copland's / 24. Mess. Earles. / 25. Mr. R. Fisher's / 26. Mr. Ward's / 27. Mr. Staniforth's / 28. Mr. Wilding's / 29. Mr. Brook's / 30. Mr. Rigby's / 31. Mr. Rateliffe's [sic] / 32. Mess. Hayhurst & Co. / 33. Mess. Boates & S. / 34. Mr. Birch's / 35. Greenland Ship's / 36. Ships / 37. Men of War / 38. Brigs / 39. Snow's / 40. Enemies / 41. Mr. Gregson's / 42. Mess. Breeze & Co. / 43. Mr. Bostock's / 44. Mess. Byrne & Co. / 45. Mr. Tomlinson's / 46. Mr. Chorley's / 47. Mess. Tarleton & B. / 48. Dublin Packet's / 49. Mess. Lake's / 50. Mr. Benson's / 51. Mr. Jackson's / 52. Mr. Kewley's / 53. Mr. Barton's / 54. Mr. Mason's / 55. Dublin Traders / 56. London Cheese Ship / 57. Mess. Harper & B. / 58. Mr. Beckwith's' (List of names of shipowners and types of ships that correspond to the flags on the mug.)
  • 'Mr. Thompson's a Red Flag over a White one on Mr. Wilding's Pole / For more that four Vessels of one kind a flag on the proper Staff /N. Formby Channel Distress-S. Rock Channel Distress.' (Underneath the list of shipowners and ships)
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Subjects depicted
Place depicted
Other number
Sch. II 412 - Schreiber number
Collection
Accession number
414:1106-1885

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Record createdMay 5, 2009
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