mug

Bristol



mug

Bristol

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

Bristol

Date Created

about 1780

Dimensions

width inc. handle: 9.9cm x 11.1cm

accession number

1922.1622

Place of creation

Bristol

Medium

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Mary Greg

Legal

© Manchester Art Gallery


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