English hunting mug with George II and Queen Caroline

An image of Tankard/Mug. Hunting Mug. Vauxhall Pottery, London. A hare hunt, half-figures of George II and Queen Caroline with GR and CR in a medal¬lion, beefeaters, trees. Inscribed, ‘Mary Culliford 1729’, and ‘Lett us Drink whilst we have Breath for there is no Drinking after Death’. Grey-buff stoneware with applied reliefs, incised inscriptions, brown dip, and salt-glaze, height, whole, 20.9 cm, dated 1729.

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Tankard/Mug. Hunting Mug. Vauxhall Pottery, London. A hare hunt, half-figures of George II and Queen Caroline with GR and CR in a medal¬lion, beefeaters, trees. Inscribed, ‘Mary Culliford 1729’, and ‘Lett us Drink whilst we have Breath for there is no Drinking after Death’. Grey-buff stoneware with applied reliefs, incised inscriptions, brown dip, and salt-glaze, height, whole, 20.9 cm, dated 1729.

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Accession Number: C.1197-1928
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/45.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3D
Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 824 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.6 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 241.69kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 45/1
Captured: 2014:05:15 15:23:08

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