1954.0058.003 Mug, Jug
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Mug or jug

  • Category:

    Ceramics

  • Place of Origin:

    Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

  • Date:

    1680-1710

  • Materials:

    Earthenware (slipware, Buff-bodied); Lead glaze

  • Techniques:

    Thrown, Slip decorated, Trailed, Combed

  • Museum Object Number:

    1954.0058.003


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Object Number

1954.0058.003

Object Name

Mug or jug

Category

Ceramics

Credit Line/Donor

Gift of Henry Francis du Pont

Place of Origin

Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Date

1680-1710

Subjects

American ownership history (foreign manuf)

Materials

Earthenware (slipware, Buff-bodied); Lead glaze

Techniques

Thrown, Slip decorated, Trailed, Combed

Dimensions (inches)

3.819 (H) , 4.449 (L) , 3.858 (Diam)

Dimensions (centimeters)

9.7 (H) , 11.3 (L) , 9.8 (Diam)

Object Description

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Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Article] Grigsby, Leslie B. 2005 British Earthenware and Porcelain in Eighteenth Century America, in Gray, Jonathan. 2005. Welsh Ceramics in Context. 2. 71-91.
Published: p. 72, pl. 4.1
[Book] Fairbanks, Jonathan L. & Trent, Robert F. 1982 New England Begins: The Seventeenth Century. II. 100-360.
Published: p. 293, no. 292a, noting "Historic provenance relates that this diminutive jug ...was 'dug out of a sand pit in Cape Cod."
[Chapter] Grigsby, Leslie B. English Slipware in Colonial America [Book] Dunsmore, Amanda. 2011 This Blessed Pot, This Earth: English Pottery Studies in Honour of Jonathan Horne. 150-158.
Published: p. 157, fig. 6.
[Book] Grigsby, Leslie B. 2000 The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware.
Dated versions: vol. 1, p. 121, nos. S59-S60, with nearly cylindrical rims inscribed, respectively, "XRT I690" and "RC I711"
[Book] Grigsby, Leslie B. 1993 English Slip-Decorated Earthenware at Williamsburg.
Dated versions: p. 57, fig. 71, with nearly cylindrical rims inscribed, respectively, "IS 1704", "WS 1704" and "KB 1726".
[Book] Barker, David & Crompton, Steve. Slipware in the Collection of the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery.
Inscribed, dated, and uninscribed versions: pp. 28-30, North Staffordshire, late 17th century. One inscribed "NO:POPE"; one "I695:W:KC". Uninscribed is cruder version of Winterthur's.