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'.
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Object Details
ID: | AAA4460 |
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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 |