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Mug

English, Artist Townsend and Compton, Artist
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About the Artwork

Mug

between 1801 and 1811

(Artist) English Townsend and Compton (Artist) English

Pewter

Overall: 6 1/2 × 7 × 4 3/8 inches (16.5 × 17.8 × 11.1 cm)

Pewter

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Gift of Robert H. Tannahill

48.340

Public Domain

Markings

Inscribed, engraved in script: HJ.

Marked, touchmarks, outside at left top of handle: [lion and sword] T&C. Marked, at right top of handle: [Quatrefoil mark] Marked, at either side of quatrefoil: G IV. Marked, above G IV: [a crown] Marked, below: [a circle]

Provenance

Robert H. Tannahill [1893-1969];
1948-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Cotterell, H. H. Old Pewter its Makers and Marks. London, 1929, p. 186, no. 1064.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

English; Townsend and Compton, Mug, between 1801 and 1811, pewter. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Robert H. Tannahill, 48.340.

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