Mug, Belleek line
Willets Manufacturing Company, C. Anderson
Decorative Arts and Design
MEDIUM
Porcelain
DATES
ca. 1885
DIMENSIONS
5 1/2 x 5 x 4 in. (14 x 12.7 x 10.2 cm)
MARKINGS
Company logo printed in brown; "C. [Anderson?]" hand-painted in red-orange paint; "6142" rectangular white adhesive label affixed to underside; "454" and "[?? two indistinct numerals] 5" handwritten in pencil.
ACCESSION NUMBER
1999.152.215
CREDIT LINE
Gift of the Estate of Harold S. Keller
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Tall tapered cylindrical thin-walled, molded, white bodied mug. Dark brown painted base with slight projecting edge rises to approximately one-inch impressed floral band, delineated by a thin horizontal band painted light yellow. Body of mug is light blue with a hand painted pattern of orange-yellow jack-o-lanterns hanging from a horizontal brown and green vine around the circumference of the mug, painted white to rim above. Square profile painted handle has scrollwork where attached to body, as well as along the sides of the handle.
Condition: Good.
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
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