American Decorative Arts
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Honorand: George Washington, American, 1732–1799, LL.D. 1781
Honorand: Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, French, 1757–1834

Mug

ca. 1824

Glazed earthenware with transfer-printed decoration

2 1/2 × 2 1/2 in. (6.35 × 6.35 cm)
Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
1931.1878
Geography: 
Manufactured in England
Status: 
On view
Culture: 
British
Period: 
19th century
Classification: 
Containers - Ceramics
Provenance: 

Purchased in New England by Albert R. Crittenden (1843–1921), Middletown, Conn., for Irving W. Lyon (1840–1896), Hartford, Conn., on August, 1880; bequeathed to Irving P. Lyon (1870–1944), Buffalo, N.Y., 1896; sold to Francis P. Garvan (1875–1937), New York, 1929; given to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1931

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