On display
Image of Gallery in South Kensington

Mug

ca. 1840 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Staffordshire (made)

Mug, cylindrical with angular handle. Lead-glazed earthenware, transfer-printed in underglaze brown with a railway-engine (marked 'EXPRESS') drawing coaches through a landscape. The engine and carriages are over-painted in alternately crimson and green enamels. Inside the lip and on the handle, the same brown-painted formal border design of quatrefoils alternating with debased acanthus scrolls.

Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Earthenware
Object type
Mug
Materials and techniques
Lead-glazed earthenware, transfer-printed in underglaze brown and over-painted in enamel colours
Earthenware
Lead Glaze
Transfer-Printed
Glazed
Painted
Brief description
Mug, lead-glazed earthenware, transfer-printed in underglaze brown and over-painted in enamel colours, Staffordshire, ca. 1840
Physical description
Mug, cylindrical with angular handle. Lead-glazed earthenware, transfer-printed in underglaze brown with a railway-engine (marked 'EXPRESS') drawing coaches through a landscape. The engine and carriages are over-painted in alternately crimson and green enamels. Inside the lip and on the handle, the same brown-painted formal border design of quatrefoils alternating with debased acanthus scrolls.
Dimensions
  • Height: 10.2cm
  • Diameter: 10.2cm
Style
Victorian
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'RAILWAY' in a scroll (printed in brown)
  • 'R.L & S' [an unidentified factory] (printed in brown)
Gallery label
(23/05/2008)
Mug
Made in Staffordshire, about 1840
Marks: "RAILWAY" AND "R.L & S" (an unidentified factory), printed in brown.
Lead-glazed earthenware

C.51-1953
Credit line
Given anonymously
Subjects depicted
Railways
Scrollwork
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.51-1953

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Record createdMarch 31, 2008
Record URL
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