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Mug
Probably made by: Herculaneum Pottery (English (Liverpool), active 1796–1841)
English, possibly Liverpool
about 1796–1800
Medium/Technique
Creamware, with transfer-printed decoration
Credit Line
Gift of Timothy Phillips in memory of Thomas F. Phillips, Jr.
Accession Number2011.2125
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsCeramics – Pottery – Earthenware
DescriptionOn one side the Great Seal of the United States within linked chain with names of 15 states. On the other side, allegorical figures of liberty peace, and plenty surrounded by Latin motto, "DEUS NOBIS HAEC OTIA FECIT" within a chain with names of original 13 colonies.
InscriptionsOn underside,
Yellow gummed label "CAT/SRT 66.3" (S. Robert Teitelman Collection, as inventoried for Teitelman/Halfpenny/Fuchs Appendix.
White gummed label: "God has brought forth his Repose"
White gummed label: "Seal of U.S. Tankard. $3,500 Ex. rare"
White gummed label "L08.1008.20" [Winterthur Museum loan number?]
White gummed label: "4275-340"
Yellow gummed label "CAT/SRT 66.3" (S. Robert Teitelman Collection, as inventoried for Teitelman/Halfpenny/Fuchs Appendix.
White gummed label: "God has brought forth his Repose"
White gummed label: "Seal of U.S. Tankard. $3,500 Ex. rare"
White gummed label "L08.1008.20" [Winterthur Museum loan number?]
White gummed label: "4275-340"
ProvenanceS. Robert Teitelman (b. 1917 – d. 2008), Haverford, PA; August 16, 2009, posthumous Teitelman sale, Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, NH, lot 878, to Timothy Phillips, Cambridge, MA; 2011, year-end gift of Timothy Phillips to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 30, 2011)