mug
Summary
Mug, white translucent glass, slightly funnel body with spread foot and scroll handle, decorated with green and red enamelled floral pattern (possibly inscribed S. Staffordshire).
Display Label
Material Look-alikes Nature and science provide designers and makers with a vast choice of possible materials from curious organics to modern synthetics. In the display case to your left some of the objects are made from materials deliberately disguised to look like others. Can you spot the impostors? The answers are on the labels or in the folder below.
Object Name
mug
Creators Name
Date Created
about 1780
Dimensions
width inc. handle: 9.9cm x 11.1cm
accession number
1922.1622
Collection Group
Place of creation
Bristol
Medium
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Mary Greg
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