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Cup
Cup, buff coloured earthenware, standing on a spreading waisted foot-rim, bell-shaped body with everted lip-rim, twin plain loop handles to either side of the body, the lower terminal of each handle curving outwards; covered all over, inside and out with a creamy-beige slip, this then crudely decorated in brown slip with to one side of the body the inscription 'Lovers Cup / in his hand' with a pattern of rough scrolls beneath, and to the other side the inscription 'J M 1768' with a further pattern of rough scrolls beneath, a rough border of hatched lines to the interior and exterior lip-rim and to the handles, the body then covered with a clear glaze, the foot left undecorated and unglazed.
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 34614
Creation/Production
Unknown
Date: 1768 ca
Acquisition
Purchase, 1904
Measurements
Height
(cm): 11.8
diam
(cm): 13.8
Height
(in): 4
diam
(in): 5
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
slip-decorated
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
earthenware
slip
glaze
Location
In store
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