{"id":898,"date":"2010-03-24T08:17:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T13:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=898"},"modified":"2011-01-07T15:03:21","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T20:03:21","slug":"sunderland-pink-lustre-frog-mug-c-1830","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=898","title":{"rendered":"Sunderland pink lustre frog mug, c.1830"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The addition of a ceramic frog inside of a child&#8217;s mug was a great way to encourage a little boy or girl to drink their milk. This 5&#8243; tall souvenir mug has pink lustre and multi-color hand painted decoration over a transferware design, and was made in the early 1800&#8217;s by Moore &amp; Co in Sunderland, England.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_21601.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4790\" title=\"IMG_2160\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_21601.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_21601.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_21601-300x273.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Printed on one side of the mug: &#8220;West View of the Cast Iron Bridge Over the River Ware&#8221;, \u00a0completed in 1796. A verse about the sea is printed on the other side.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_21611.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4791\" title=\"IMG_2161\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_21611.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_21611.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_21611-300x272.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A simple tin handle with straps does the trick replacing the original, shattered after a fall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_21621.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4792\" title=\"IMG_2162\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_21621.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_21621.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_21621-300x258.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the ceramic frog also suffered from the fall and was never recovered. Wouldn&#8217;t it be great to see a &#8220;make do&#8221; frog inside of this mug?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_31731.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4793\" title=\"IMG_3173\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_31731.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_31731.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_31731-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An original frog inside of a mug which escaped the slippery fingers of a Victorian child.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/323042.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4795\" title=\"32304\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/323042.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/323042.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/323042-300x285.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgell.me.uk\">Martyn Edgell Antiques<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The addition of a ceramic frog inside of a child&#8217;s mug was a great way to encourage a little boy or girl to drink their milk. This 5&#8243; tall souvenir mug has pink lustre and multi-color hand painted decoration over a transferware design, and was made in the early 1800&#8217;s by Moore &amp; Co in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[19,5,40,100],"class_list":["post-898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mugtankard","tag-english","tag-lustre","tag-metal-handle","tag-pottery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4383,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions\/4383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}