Ceramic Mug

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Description:

This green mug has a stippled exterior with a pulled acanthus leaf handle. The mug was produced in England during the middle of the 18th century. Helen Augusta Mosher donated this mug to the museum upon her death in 1961, one of 839 ceramic objects that she gave to the museum.

Place Made: United Kingdom: England

See more items in: Home and Community Life: Ceramics and Glass, American Enterprise, Domestic Furnishings

Exhibition: American Enterprise

Exhibition Location: National Museum of American History

Related Publication: Sewer, Andy; Allison, David; Liebhold, Peter; Davis, Nancy; Franz, Kathleen G.. American Enterprise: A History of Business in America

Credit Line: H.A. Mosher

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: CE.62.711Catalog Number: 62.711Accession Number: 240968

Object Name: mug

Physical Description: monochrome, green (overall surface decoration color name)ceramic, earthenware, refined (overall material)

Metadata Usage: CC0

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a3-cef2-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_571307

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