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Nottingham stoneware two handled loving cup

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An image of Two-handled cup/Loving cup. Unknown, probably Nottingham factory. Incised on one side with the inscription: 'Thomas Smeeton &/Mary His Wife 1739', on the other, with two sprays of flowers resembling potentilla, on a wide band between two borders of geometrical pattern. Stoneware possibly covered with a ferruginous wash, incised, and salt-glazed, height, whole, 21.0 cm, diameter, mouth, 21.7 cm, width, whole, 29.5 cm, dated 1739. English.

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Two-handled cup/Loving cup. Unknown, probably Nottingham factory. Incised on one side with the inscription: 'Thomas Smeeton &/Mary His Wife 1739', on the other, with two sprays of flowers resembling potentilla, on a wide band between two borders of geometrical pattern. Stoneware possibly covered with a ferruginous wash, incised, and salt-glazed, height, whole, 21.0 cm, diameter, mouth, 21.7 cm, width, whole, 29.5 cm, dated 1739. English.

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  • Accession Number: C.1234-1928
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/19.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
  • Photographer name: Amy Jugg
  • Image height: 834 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 109.51kB
  • Exposure time: 1/60
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 19/1
  • Captured: 2013:09:03 10:14:19

Key words

18th Century cup drinking vessel English Fitz_AA geometrical Georgian glazed handled incised inscribed inscriptions love loving cup patterned pottery romance romantic salt-glazed stoneware vessel

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