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Post by orangefrog April 18th 2012, 8:26 pm

A strange mug. I saw another one in a junk shop recently but with no info known about it.

Mug like a brick Ebaypi14

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It's not a thing of beauty - crudely made but functional. It's incredibly light - the fabric is more like plaster than clay, originally white but gone dirty with age. Odd thing, I don't know whether I like it or not.
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Post by NaomiM May 16th 2012, 5:12 pm

Hi, I've seen this pattern before on small jugs. I believe they date from the 1800s, and it's called a checker-board pattern where the red slip, over a cream body, is scraped off to give the alternating two-tone colours.

This is my jug - it's only a couple of inches high. They crop up on ebay every so often.


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Post by orangefrog May 19th 2012, 1:21 pm

That's great, thanks for the info.
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