- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Frog mug. Pottery mug with cylindrical body and flat expanded base. The entirety is glazed white and then painted with script, ships, flowers, foliage on one side. The other side depicts a scene with many ships sailing on a river under a bridge and near a factory. The inside of the mug has a brown frog modelled and attached to the side. [MOBB [OPS move] 09/05/2016]
- Geographical reference
- England Sunderland Tyne and Wear
- Cultural groups
- English
- Date / Period
- Date made: Circa 1850
- Date collected
- By 1943
- Acquisition information
- Exchanged: 10/1943
- Materials and processes
- Material Pigment, Material Pottery, Process Glazed, Process Thrown, Process Decorated, Process Painted, Process Modelled
- Dimensions
- Width: max 136 mm, Height: max 97 mm, Diameter: max 111 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1943.10.21
- Research and responses
http://www.nicks.com.au/index.aspx?link_id=76.682: Sunderland Mugs, better known as Frog Mugs, were, the product of that town before they were imitated in Stafford shire and in Worcestershire, and the reason why they were called Frog mugs is because in the interior of the mug is the form of a frog, with legs outstretched. When the mug was lifted for the purpose of quaffing the contents, and it was nearly drained dry, the frog appeared to the vision of the drinker, who promptly imagined that it was a live one, which was about to leap down his throat. There are many examples and variations of the original mug, but in the main the same idea is present. There were about twenty five potteries on the Tyne, the Wear and the Tees all of them producing these frog mugs up to about seventy years ago
Search terms: Vessel, Figure, Food and Drink, Cup, Animal Figure, Food Accessory