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Mug
1735-1760
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Westerwald; Germany; Europe
Materials
- Stoneware (salt-glazed)
- Salt glaze
Museum Object Number
1974.0036
Credit Line/Donor
Gift of Thomas A. Gray
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Object Number
1974.0036
Object Name
Mug
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Westerwald; Germany; Europe
Date
1735-1760
Subject(s)
- Monarchs and nobility
Materials
- Stoneware (salt-glazed)
- Salt glaze
Techniques
- Turned
- Thrown
- Mold-applied
- Incised
- Painted
Dimensions (inches)
6.22 (H) x 6.063 (L) x 4.331 (Diam)
Dimensions (centimeters)
15.8 (H) x 15.4 (L) x 11 (Diam)
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Book: Noel Hume, Ivor. 2001 If These Pots Could Talk: Collecting 200 Years of British Household Pottery.
• Discussion of "GR" Westerwald jugs and mugs: pp. 108-109, figs. V.20-V.23Manuscript: Findlen, Suzanne Rae. "Taste and Choice in Early Portsmouth New Hampshire as Seen Through Ceramic Archaeological Evidence, 1700-1800" (MA thesis).
• Westerwald mugs with blue decoration excavated Deer Tavern, Strawbery Banke, NH: p. 97, no. 153 (A-0888 DS5.5.110), 1750-65 privy context; no. 154 (A-0900 DS5.5.F120), 1690-1720 well contextCatalogue: Hinton, Jack. 2012 The Art of German Stoneware from the Charles W. Nichols Collection and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
• Westerwald jugs and mug with "GR" and varied ornamental motifs: p. 47, pl. 32, cobal and (one) manganese decoration.Book: Noel Hume, Ivor. 1969 Archaeology and Wetherburn's Tavern.
• Cylindrical "GR" mug excavated at Wetherburn's Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia: p. 29, fig. 17