Mug
ca. 1800-1805 (made)
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This mug is made from a new type of tough earthenware invented and patented by the Staffordshire potters William and John Turner in 1799-1800. It was one of a number of utilitarian pottery bodies developed in Staffordshire in the1800s and 1810s and intended as substitutes for robust and cheap grey-bodied Chinese porcelain tablewares, which the English East India Company stopped importing in bulk in 1791. Turner's patent specified the use of 'Tabberner's Mine Rock', which had not been used by potters before, in combination with Cornish stone and flint. The body is similar to the better known 'Stone China' launched by the Spode factory in 1813 and C. & J. Mason's 'Ironstone China', patented in the same year.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Lead-glazed earthenware |
| Brief description | Mug, lead-glazed earthenware, made at the factory of John Turner, Lane End, Staffordshire, ca. 1800-1805 |
| Physical description | Cylindrical mug |
| Marks and inscriptions | 'Turners Patent' (painted in red) |
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| Credit line | Given by E. N. Iddon |
| Summary | This mug is made from a new type of tough earthenware invented and patented by the Staffordshire potters William and John Turner in 1799-1800. It was one of a number of utilitarian pottery bodies developed in Staffordshire in the1800s and 1810s and intended as substitutes for robust and cheap grey-bodied Chinese porcelain tablewares, which the English East India Company stopped importing in bulk in 1791. Turner's patent specified the use of 'Tabberner's Mine Rock', which had not been used by potters before, in combination with Cornish stone and flint. The body is similar to the better known 'Stone China' launched by the Spode factory in 1813 and C. & J. Mason's 'Ironstone China', patented in the same year. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.55-1964 |
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| Record created | March 31, 2008 |
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