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Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	Staffordshire (made)

Mug of lead-glazed earthenware, transfer-printed with in underglaze black on one side with a half-length portrait of Brunel, the engineer of the Thames Tunnel, and on the other side with a view of the tunnel. Cylindrical with a foliated loop handle. Below the view of the Tunnel is inscribed '1,200 feet long, 76 feet below high water mark, was 8 years building & cost £446,000. Opened the 25th day of March, 1843.'.

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Categories	Ceramics Earthenware
Object type	Mug
Materials and techniques	Lead-glazed earthenware, transfer-printed in underglaze black Lead Glaze Earthenware Transfer-Printed Glazed
Brief description	Mug of lead-glazed earthenware, transfer-printed in underglaze black, Staffordshire, ca. 1843.
Physical description	Mug of lead-glazed earthenware, transfer-printed with in underglaze black on one side with a half-length portrait of Brunel, the engineer of the Thames Tunnel, and on the other side with a view of the tunnel. Cylindrical with a foliated loop handle. Below the view of the Tunnel is inscribed '1,200 feet long, 76 feet below high water mark, was 8 years building & cost £446,000. Opened the 25th day of March, 1843.'.
Dimensions	Height: 9.5cm Diameter: 9.8cm
Style	Victorian
Marks and inscriptions	'Commemorating the opening of Marc Brunel's Thames Tunnel in 1843' 'SIR J. M. BRUNEL F.R.S., Engineer of the Thames Tunnel' (Inscribed on the portrait) '1,200 feet long, 76 feet below high water mark, was 8 years building & cost £446,000. Opened the 25th day of March, 1843.' (Inscribed below the tunnel)
Gallery label	(23/05/2008) Mug Made in Staffordshire, about 1843 Commemorating the opening of Marc Brunel's Thames Tunnel in 1843 Lead-glazed earthenware 3641-1901 Jermyn Street Collection
Credit line	Transferred from the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street
Subjects depicted	Portrait Tunnel Brunel, Marc Isambard
Bibliographic reference	Doran, Susan. Royal River. Power Pageantry and the Thames. London: Scala Publishers Ltd. 2012. 209p, ill. cat. no. 172. ISBN 978-1-85759-700-4
Collection	Ceramics Collection
Accession number	3641-1901

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Record created	March 31, 2008
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O149278/mug-unknown/

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