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

Mug

ca. 1756 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Mug of soft-paste porcelain, painted in underglaze blue. Cylindrical with a loop handle. Painted with a woman and a boy in a landscape.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue
Brief description
Mug of soft-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue, Worcester porcelain factory, Worcester, ca. 1756
Physical description
Mug of soft-paste porcelain, painted in underglaze blue. Cylindrical with a loop handle. Painted with a woman and a boy in a landscape.
Dimensions
  • Height: 14.6cm
Marks and inscriptions
An arrow with an annulet (In blue A mark that has been dated ca. 1756)
Credit line
Given by Mrs Allen from the John Lee Allen Collection
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
For this pattern, see Branyan, French and Sandon, Worcester Blue and White Porcelain, revised edition 1989, cat. I.A.17, where dated 1755-65
Collection
Accession number
C.105-1935

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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