New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.

Mug

Manufacturer Worcester Porcelain Company (British)

CultureEnglish

Dateca. 1760

MediumPorcelain

Dimensions3 3/8 × 3 3/4 × 2 1/4 in. (8.6 × 9.5 × 5.7 cm)

Credit LineOn loan from the City of Norfolk, gift of Elise and Henry Clay Hofheimer II

Object numberL2005.10.92

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 112, Case 1

DescriptionThis is a Worcester Armorial Cylindrical Mug. Printed in black on the front with the coat of arms of Sir Richard Perrott above a banderole inscribed with the motto AMO UT INVENIO [I love, when I find] and the signature R. Hancock fet, the back with a ribbed loop handle between scenes of either two birds perched in a tree or a dove on a lawn before a fence and tree.
ProvenanceHenry Clay Hofheimer, II