Child's mug
Category
Household and miscellaneous
Date
Unknown
Materials
Ceramic
Measurements
75 mm (height); 75 mm (diameter)
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 662924
Summary
A child's china mug decorated with a transfer image of a woman offering a plate to a sick cat. The woman's dress is hand-painted in red; a pot, the chair and window in yellow and the carpet in green. A gold lustre line runs around the rim.
Marks and inscriptions
Side of the mug: 'GRANDMAMA'S TALES'/ Poor Pussy was sick and Lucy was sad/ For Lucy loved Pussy most dear/ And kind Lucy made puss a soft bed/ On the seat of her own little chair'