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Baxter portrait mug

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• Museum number

  1730

• Description

  Cylindrical straight sided mug, opposite the handle a black painted silhouette, probably a self portrait of Thomas Baxter. The rest of the outside decorated with a horizontal panel of flowers and rich gilding. Inscribed under the base "Septr.1814"

• Artist

  Thomas Baxter

• Date made

  1814

• Material

  Soft paste porcelain

• Factory mark

  Flight, Barr & Barr

• Mark type

  printed

• Provenance/assession

  From the collection of CW Dyson Perrins

• Height

  3 1/2 inches