IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 38350 accession number: C.3125-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain mug, painted in red, pink, purple, yellow and green enamels. The cylindrical mug flares slightly at the foot and has a scrolled strap handle with kick terminal. It is painted on one side with an overflowing cornucopia of flowers, the reverse with a bouquet and scattered sprigs. The inside rim is banded with alternate scrolls and flowerheads. object type: Soft-paste porcelain mug, decorated with flower sprays in onlglaze polychrome enamels. title: mug NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought from the Merton Thoms Collection, sold Christie's. 11th February, 1910, part of lot 187, £5 15s 6d. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/38350 PEOPLE ------------------- Thoms, Merton SUBJECTS ------------------- cornucopia flowers cornucopia flowers TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, painted in red, pink, purple, yellow and green enamels glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1780 - 1780 creation date earliest: 1780 creation date latest: 1780 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Lowestoft Porcelain Factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 11.0 dimension: Width units: cm value: 10.7 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Lowestoft Porcelain in Norwich Castle Museum ---