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Factory: uncertain
Glazed bone china or hybrid porcelain mug, painted underglaze in blue and decorated with a biscuit medallion
Bone china or hybrid poprcelain mug, with an applied, moulded, biscuit relief medallion, underglaze blue ground, and gilding. Cylindrical with rounded projecting footring, slightly projecting rim, and scrolled loop handle. Decorated on the front with an oval portrait medallion of George IV. the shoulders facing front, the head, wearing a laurel wreath, in profile to left, with the legend 'GEORGIVS IV DEI GRATIA BRITANNIARUM REX', reserved in blue ground. There are gilt bands round the medallion, the base, the rim, and the inside of the rim. The handle is decorated in gold with a leav, and scrolls. On the base is an applied, or possibly integrally moulded, oval panel, with in relief a wreath enclosing 'JULY XIX/MDCCCXXIX'.
Given by G.H.W Rylamds, Litt. D., CBE, CH, in memory of his mother, Betha Wolferstan Rylands
Height: 8.5 cm
Width: 12.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1997-07-14) by Rylands, G.H.W.
19th Century, Mid#
Circa
1829
CE
-
1850
CE
The day and the month are those of George IV's Coronation, byut that took place in 1821 not 1829. This mug therefore appears to have been made for some kind of commemorative event in 1829.
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( blue)
gold
Medallion
composed of
biscuit porcelain
or hybrid porcelain
Bone china
Glaze
Accession number: C.56-1997
Primary reference Number: 75533
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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