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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Mug

ca. 1780 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Mug of soft-paste porcelain, painted with enamels and gilded, with a glass bottom, and cylindrical with two reeded bands and a loop handle, and round the top is a continuous stem of laurel leaves and berries in gold on a bleu de roi band, and near the base is a wreath of gilt leaves entwined with a blue line.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, and with a glass bottom
Brief description
Mug of soft-paste porcelain, painted with enamels and gilded, with a glass bottom, and cylindrical with two reeded bands and a loop handle, made by William Duesbury & Co., Derby, ca. 1780.
Physical description
Mug of soft-paste porcelain, painted with enamels and gilded, with a glass bottom, and cylindrical with two reeded bands and a loop handle, and round the top is a continuous stem of laurel leaves and berries in gold on a bleu de roi band, and near the base is a wreath of gilt leaves entwined with a blue line.
Dimensions
  • Height: 11.4cm
  • Diameter: 8.9cm
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Object history
Purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from Hamille, [rue Vieux], Versailles, for 6 shillings 6 pence in June 1871
Subjects depicted
Other number
Sch. I 393 - Schreiber number
Collection
Accession number
414:469-1885

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Record createdAugust 14, 2008
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