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Mug (Cup)
1680-1720
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
England; United Kingdom; Europe
Materials
- Earthenware (slipware, buff-bodied)
- Lead glaze
Museum Object Number
1958.1073
Credit Line/Donor
Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont
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Object Number
1958.1073
Object Name
Mug (Cup)
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
England; United Kingdom; Europe
Date
1680-1720
Materials
- Earthenware (slipware, buff-bodied)
- Lead glaze
Techniques
- Thrown
- Slip decorated
- Dotted
- Pulled
Dimensions (inches)
2.362 (H) x 3.386 (L) x 2.638 (Diam)
Dimensions (centimeters)
6 (H) x 8.6 (L) x 6.7 (Diam)
Measurement Notes
Length includes handle.
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. 4.1Article: Orr, David. 2003 Samuel Malkin in Philadelphia: A Remarkable Slipware Assemblage. Ceramics in America. 252-55.
• Dotware mug of same general type excavated in Philadelphia: p. 252, fig. 1 (center), from well on Market St., sealed around 1760.Book: Miller, J. Jefferson & Stone, Lyle M. 1970 Eighteenth-Century Ceramics from Fort Michilimackinac: A Study in Archaeology.
• Dotted slipware vessel fragments excavated at Fort Michilimackinac site, Michigan: p. 62, figs. 33c&a.Manuscript: Findlen, Suzanne Rae. "Taste and Choice in Early Portsmouth New Hampshire as Seen Through Ceramic Archaeological Evidence, 1700-1800" (MA thesis).
• Different form dotware mug excavated Richard Hart House cellar, Strawbery Banke, New Hampshire: p. 170, no. 475 (A-0882 DS.7.F102), 1700-45 contextThesis: Brincat, Lauren Holly. 2014 John Browne's Flushing: Material Life on a Dutch Frontier, 1645-1700. M.A. Winterthur Winterthur Program in American Material Culture