Mug

One of a pair of creamware wedding tankards, decorated in polychrome with wreaths and flowers and depicting a cutter-rigged vessel with a square topsail, under sail, painted in red-brown on a green sea and flying a red swallow-tailed pennant. 'Success to the Union' is inscribed below the ship, 'Thos. & Mary Marsh' below the handle. Thomas Marsh was the master of the vessel 'Union'.

Object Details

ID: AAA4460
Collection: Decorative art
Type: Mug
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Unknown
Vessels: Union, ca.1780
Date made: circa 1780
People: Marsh, Thomas
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 105 x 110 x 75 mm