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

Artist/Maker	Worcester Porcelain Factory (manufacturer) Hancock, Robert (engraver)
Place of origin	Worcester (made)

Mug of soft-paste porcelain transfer-printed with black enamel. Bell-shaped with a reeded loop handle. On the front is printed, in a looped and be-ribboned frame, the subject of Aeneas and Anchises fleeing blazing Troy. Pair of printed butterflies to the right and left of the panel.

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Categories	Ceramics Porcelain
Object type	Mug
Materials and techniques	Soft-paste porcelain transfer-printed with black enamel Soft Paste Porcelain Transfer-Printed
Brief description	Mug of soft-paste porcelain transfer-printed with black enamel, engraved by Robert Hancock with the subject of Aeneas and Anchises fleeing blazing Troy, Worcester porcelain factory, Worcester, ca. 1760.
Physical description	Mug of soft-paste porcelain transfer-printed with black enamel. Bell-shaped with a reeded loop handle. On the front is printed, in a looped and be-ribboned frame, the subject of Aeneas and Anchises fleeing blazing Troy. Pair of printed butterflies to the right and left of the panel.
Dimensions	Height: 14.6cm
Credit line	Given by Mrs. Frank Tilley
Object history	The transfer-print is engraved by Robert Hancock after H. Gravelot.
Subjects depicted	Reeded Butterflies Boys Aeneas Anchises
Place depicted	Troy
Bibliographic references	Michael Snodin assisted by Elspeth Moncrieff (eds.) Rococo, Art and Design in Hogarth's England, Victoria & Albert Museum exhibition catalogue, 16 May-30 September, 1984. See p. 54 catalogue D8 for the possible origin of the original design by Hubert François Gravelot, a projected edition of John Theobald's translation of Virgil's Aeneid, Book II, D9 for a Bow plate of c. 1756 printed with the same design and D10 for an enamel plaque also with the same design. In the entry for D9 this mug is cited. Gabszewicz, A and Freeman, G. Bow Porcelain, The Collection formed by Geoffrey Freeman, Lund Humphries, London1982. See fig. 118 for a Bow saucer dish of 1754-57 with the same print in red.
Collection	Ceramics Collection
Accession number	C.83-1939

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Record created	June 24, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O336727/mug-hancock-robert/

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