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On Display: House - Williams Room
Mug or jug
1680-1710
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Staffordshire; England; United Kingdom; Europe
Materials
- Earthenware (slipware, Buff-bodied)
- Lead glaze
Museum Object Number
1954.0058.003
Credit Line/Donor
Gift of Henry Francis du Pont
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Object Number
1954.0058.003
Object Name
Mug or jug
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Staffordshire; England; United Kingdom; Europe
Date
1680-1710
Subject(s)
- American ownership history (foreign manuf)
Materials
- Earthenware (slipware, Buff-bodied)
- Lead glaze
Techniques
- Thrown
- Slip decorated
- Trailed
- Combed
Dimensions (inches)
3.819 (H) x 4.449 (L) x 3.858 (Diam)
Dimensions (centimeters)
9.7 (H) x 11.3 (L) x 9.8 (Diam)
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. 4.1Book: 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.