Victorian Mugs
Victorian pottery & porcelain mugs…
These delightful pieces of Social History are glimpses of people from throughout the 19th century. Made by the majority of ceramic makers, they were sometimes custom-orders at the factory, other times gilded with custom names and dates at the High-Street china dealers who marketed them.
The various dates are a great way of seeing the styles and colours of the various decades – note ‘Auntie Jenny’s’ 1906 present to ‘Walter’, which is nowhere near the quality of ‘James Christisen’s’ from 40 years earlier.
Traditionally they were a birth present – the name & date recording for posterity a person’s year of birth. Others must have been special presents for special friends, such as ‘William Edward Pickels – Christmas – 1855’ .
Others are simply fun -the best example we have ever seen is below, where Mr ‘John Wooley’ had a mug made for him, perhaps by friends who knew his habits very well:
“No Tongue can tell,
No heart can think.
Oh how I love
A drop of Drink” !
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1851 Great Exhibition Coalport porcelain mug, Edinburgh & Burns , ‘WB’ personalised
$365.00 AUD#1028636View item -
English pottery small mug with bird in branch print, copper lustre, c. 1820
Sale! $85.50 AUD#1021736View item -
Gaudy-Welsh’ porcelain coffee can, c.1840.
Sale! $49.50 AUD#1016564View item -
Staffordshire mug, Chinoiserie print, c.1840
Sale! $166.50 AUD#1015153View item -
English Porcelain presentation mug, Emma Colclough May 1st 1842
Sale! Sold#1021732View item -
Porcelain presentation mug – John Wooley ‘How I love a Drop of Drink’ c.1850
Sale! $265.50 AUD#1021728View item -
Victorian copper lustre mug, moulded flowers, c. 1830
Sale! $198.00 AUD#1015178View item -
Victorian lustre mug, blue flowerhead sprigs, c. 1840
Sale! $130.50 AUD#1015175View item -
English bone china mug, ‘Think of Me’, painted with flowers, c. 1850
Sale! $76.50 AUD#1021717View item -
English bone china mug, printed & painted with flowers, c. 1840
Sale! $108.00 AUD#1021716View item -
English porcelain mug titled James Trent Christison, scenic panels, 1866
Sale! $261.00 AUD#1016984View item -
English porcelain presentation mug – Stephen Dickins, 1852
Sale! $216.00 AUD#1014941View item
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