Description:
English pearlware, quart-size mug with a molded flat base, covered with slip decoration, also known as mocha, banded, or dipped ware. The mug was wheel-thrown and then turned on a lathe. The handle of the straight-sided mug is missing, but the leaf terminals remain. There is a dark-brown band around the rim; over a band of incised concentric rings, or dicing, in underglaze green; over a dark-brown band; over a series of stylized circles in orange, dark brown, and grey, often described as "cat's eyes"; over a dark-brown band; over a wide grayish-blue band; over a dark-brown band; over a similar group of circles; over two dark-brown bands. It came with a non-matching cover (82.059A, now in storage).
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location) Link to share this object record:
https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=HD+82.059 |
