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Porter mug, porcelain, painted in overglaze enamels with an industrial scene depicting the Soho Foundry of Peel and Williams millwrights in Manchester, with gilt neoclassical borders to rim and handle.
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Porter mug, porcelain, of cylindrical form with two moulded horizontal ribs around upper and lower body, angular handle with flattened thumb rest and splayed terminals. Two painted scenes in rectangular frames around body, illustrating the factory yard of the Soho Foundry of Peel and Williams millwrights in Manchester. Scene to left of handle shows the factory yard with smoking chimneys, products of the foundry including architectural iron work and steam engine parts scattered around the yard, workers about the yard including single figure pushing a wheelbarrow in foreground. Scene to right of handle shows factory buildings with sign reading 'SOHO FOUNDRY / PEEL AND WILLIAMS', canal and boat in foreground. Gilded neoclassical border to rim above moulded rib, comprising acanthus scrolls, dragon heads, swans and cornucopia. Gilded vertical border to side of mug surrounding handle terminals.
Technique: thrown
Technique: enamelling overglaze
Technique: gilding
Material: ceramics
Material: porcelain
Material: bone china
porter mug by , c1820, (2004.21). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.17921 | Go to resource |
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