Mug
ca. 1790 (made)
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Mug of earthenware transfer-printed and painted with enamels. Cylindrical in shape with a loop handle. On the front is a print coloured red, green, yellow and puce, showing a prize-fight with umpires and seconds, and inscribed below with 'HUMPHREYS and MENDOZA. Fighting at / Odiham in Hampshire on Wednesday / Jany. 9th1788'. Above the figures are numerals 1 to 8 and in scrolls above with names in reference to the numbers, as follows: '1. Umpire, 2. Umpire, 3. Isaac, 4. Benjamin, 5. Mendoza, 6. Humphreys, 7. Johnson, 8.Tring.'. Brown line round the rim.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Earthenware transfer-printed and painted with enamels |
| Brief description | Mug of earthenware transfer-printed and painted with enamels, decorated by John Aynsley & Sons Ltd., Lane End, made in Staffordshire, ca. 1790. |
| Physical description | Mug of earthenware transfer-printed and painted with enamels. Cylindrical in shape with a loop handle. On the front is a print coloured red, green, yellow and puce, showing a prize-fight with umpires and seconds, and inscribed below with 'HUMPHREYS and MENDOZA. Fighting at / Odiham in Hampshire on Wednesday / Jany. 9th1788'. Above the figures are numerals 1 to 8 and in scrolls above with names in reference to the numbers, as follows: '1. Umpire, 2. Umpire, 3. Isaac, 4. Benjamin, 5. Mendoza, 6. Humphreys, 7. Johnson, 8.Tring.'. Brown line round the rim. |
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| Credit line | Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber |
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| Bibliographic reference | Apollo, March 1968, p. 208. |
| Other number | Sch. II 452 - Schreiber number |
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| Accession number | 414:1239-1885 |
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| Record created | May 7, 2009 |
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