1281
1281m
1281a
1281c
Mug — CRC# 1281
- Description
- A rare Bristol cylindrical mug, with notched loop handle, finely painted in puce with the monogram 'JEM' (for Cookworthy's friend and physician Dr John Mudge) and painted in coloured enamels with a band of flowers and leaves, suspending swags of flowers, circa 1770, tin mark in gilt. The mug was likely made as a gift for Mudge.
- Service
- Initials and Armorial
- Date
- 1768-70
- Size
- 9.7cm diameter, 11.8cm high
- Condition
- Perfect
- Mark
- Gilt tin
- Mark Group
- Tin
- Decorator
- No mark
- Maker
- Cookworthy
- Labels
- Peter Stephens Collection Plymouth 148. Albert Amor
- Historic Provenance
- From the estate of the Bristol banking family of Miles; Peter Stephen collection; Godden Reference collection; Creed collection. Exhibited: Bristol Bicentenary Loan Exhibition, 1970, number 70
- Notes
- This is one of two missing mugs referred to by Mrs Carsdale, a descendent of Dr John Mudge, in a 1969 letter to Douglas Selleck. The other, with initials ZM was made for Rev. Zachariah Mudge, Dr John Mudge's father. The Miles banking provenance is also interesting and shows the interlinked world of commercial interests around the Bristol factory. Their bank, which when it sold in 1877 was a rather delightfully named partnership of Miles, Miles, Harford, Miles & Miles had started life in 1752 as Goldney, Smith, Miller, Champion, Reed & Vaughan.
- CRC#
- 1281
- Type
- Mug
1281b
Historic illustrations, exhibitions and provenance
H0214 · 1752
Dr John Mudge FRS by Sir Joshua Reynolds c1752-53
H0223 · 1985
The Mudge mug in the Godden Reference Collection
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