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Mug
Mug, soft-paste porcelain, inset base within a flattened-off foot-rim, cylindrical body flaring very slightly at the lip-rim, ridged loop handle; transfer-printed in underglaze blue with to the front of the exterior body a head and shoulders portrait of a female figure in profile clad in eighteenth century costume, below the portrait is the inscription "Q. CHARLOTTE", to one side of the exterior body a small group of a seated naked female figure holding a bow with a naked winged cupid holding an arrow besides her, to the other side of the body is a helmeted female figure seated on a cloud and carrying a shield and a spear. A crack runs down one side of the body.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 34946
Acquisition
Purchase, 9/2/1951
Measurements
Height
(cm): 8.5
diam
(cm): 7.1
Width
(cm): 10.5
Height
(in): 3
diam
(in): 2
Width
(in): 4
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
transfer-printed
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
glaze
Location
In store
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