Photograph: Stoneware mug with a pale brown glaze and a frilled base. It has a silver gilt lid that attaches to the handle.
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Drinking mug

Date: About 1550

The English practice of adding precious metal mounts to plain stonewares flourished for a relatively short period from the 1520s to the 1580s, and products from Raeren (Belgium) were among the first imports to be treated in this way. This mug is a typical example, and is embellished with a silver-gilt lid, hinge and cast dolphin thumbpiece. The roundel in the centre of the lid is engraved with the owner's initials 'PH', and the rim bears the inscription: '+THE TONGE THAT LIETH KILLETH THE SOULE'. The mounts are English, but unmarked.

Accession number: A23406

Place made: Raeren, Germany or Belgium or London

Place of collection: unknown

Material: ceramic; stoneware; silver; gilt

Measurements: H c. 230 mm; DM c. 120 mm; W c. 135 mm

Gallery location: Case 18.1

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Subjects:

Poverty & Wealth
Rhine

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