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Description: | Large bell-shaped loving cup on turned spreading foot, with tall flared neck and two ribbed strap loop handles with pinched and flattened spurs at lower terminals. Incised borders beneath neckrim and above foot, comprising bands of diamonds against ribbed ground, enclosed within plain turned and wavy rouletted narrow bands. Incised inscription on one side between borders, reading 'William Mason and / Sarah His wife '1742' continuing beneath lower border 'May the 29' in ornate cursive script. The other side incised with simple flowering plant bearing tulip and rose, the date '1742' in bottom left corner. Single rouletted wavy band to footring. Speckled ochre-brown iron-rich colouring beneath a lustrous salt-glaze.
Material: ceramics
Material: stoneware
Material: thrown
Material: incised
Material: salt-glazed
Material: turned
cup & loving cup made in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe, 1742, (1947.652). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.5312 | Go to resource |
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