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Culture:English
Title:mug
Date Made:1826
Type:Food Service
Materials:ceramic: lead glaze with cobalt oxide over refined earthenware (pearlware) with high-temperature underglaze oxides
Place Made:United Kingdom; England; Staffordshire
Measurements:overall: 6 1/2 x 6 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.; 16.51 x 15.875 x 11.43 cm
Accession Number:  HD 1964
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield
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Description:
One of two English pearlware mugs with a handle, in blue, brown, green, and yellow, with the inscription commemorating "AMERICA INDEPENDENT 1776". HD 76.019 is smaller version of these mugs, made to be sold as a fiftieth anniversary of American independence. The cylindrical mug has a blue-edged rim over a plain molded band; over a band of flowers in blue, yellow, and green; over the impressed inscription outlined by two molded bands; over grouping of three vertical, swirled blue bands ending in a blue band; over a molded flat base. The applied, scrolled handle has pinched terminals and blue foliate decoration. Similar mugs were sold with the inscription for "Winchester Measure Warranted," c. 1825.

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