Description:
Cylindrical pearlware mug with a short, straight-sided body coated with a ground layer of blue slip, and an attached C-scroll handle. The mug is lathe turned with rouletted beaded decoration around top edge and ribbed molding around the bottom edge. The mug is decorated with sprigs of white clay in classically inspired scenes of a woman making an offering at an altar; a goat; and a foliate spray with a vase on one side, and two putti in a chariot or cart being pulled by a sheep while another putti flies alongside on the other, all on top of the slip. This mug may have been made by Wood and Caldwell or by Enoch Wood and Company - see marked Wood and Caldwell jug HD 1999.24.7. This type of ware could be seen as a lesser-priced alternative to the popular and more expensive jasperwares (dry-bodied stonewares).
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