Commemorative mug
This mug was made to mark the end of the First World War. The main caption celebrates “Victory and Peace 1919” and a large image of Britannia with the Union Jack is on the other side of the mug. Both are surrounded with images of the war including a soldier, battlefield guns, naval ships and air planes. Around the rim are listed numerous Allied countries who fought in the war.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 81/1979
- Category
- Decorative Art
- Collection Class
- British ceramics
- Material
- porcelain
- Common Name
- commemorative mug
- Simple Name
- mug
- Inscription Transcription
- JAPAN // MONTENEGRO / PORTUGAL // GREAT. BRITAIN / AND / HER . GLORIOUS . COLONIES //SERBIA / ROUMANIA // BELGIUM // AMERICA // FRANCE // ITALY; VICTORY / AND / PEACE /1919; PRO. PATRIA
- Period Classification
- Inter War (1918-1939)
- Production Town
- Burslem
- Production County
- Staffordshire
- Production Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Production Date
- c 1919
- Production Person Surname
- Doulton & Co.
- Production Year Low
- 1918
- Production Year High
- 1919
