Mug

Description

Porcelain mug decorated with transfer prints of The Fortune Teller after the French painter Watteau and A View of the Canal and of the Gothick Towere in the Garden of His Grace the Duke of Argyll at Whitton, adapted from an engraving: English, Worcester Porcelain Company, 1770s

Museum reference

A.1926.328

Collection

Decorative and Applied Art

Object name

Mug

Production information

Worcester Porcelain Company
Worcester, Worcestershire, England, Northern Europe

Date

1770s

Materials

Porcelain

Physical description

Porcelain; decorated with transfer prints in black of an angling scene and a fortune-telling scene

Associations

William Woollett
Robert Hancock
Duke of Argyll
Watteau
Depicted: Whitton, Middlesex, England, Northern Europe

Exhibitions

• Art of Living (08 Jul 2016)
  National Museum of Scotland

On display

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