- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Ceramic mug, broken, with inscription reading 'Edward King'
- Long description
- Ceramic cream and brown glazed mug, broken. The base and handle are not present. The mug is inscribed with Edw. King with a sculpted angel on the body. Makers stamp of [Crown] WR. [CG [Excav. PR] 28/06/2013]
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- English
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1878
- Date collected
- 1878
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Pottery, Process Inscribed, Process Glazed, Process Decorated, Process Moulded
- Dimensions
- Height: max 162 mm, Depth: max 103 mm, Weight 549 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.40.34
- Research and responses
The mug appears to relate to Edward King (1829-1910), who was Regius Professor of Pastoral Theology at Oxford and Canon of Christ Church from 1873, and principal founder of St Stephen's House [Dan Hicks 15/08/2013]
See also 1884.41.30 [Dan Hicks 15/08/2013]
See Henry Taunt photograph of this site at http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk/story/slide.asp?StoryUid=17&totSlides=18&slideNo=2 [AP 05/04/2006]
See also http://www.headington.org.uk/oxon/high/tour/south/angel_hotel.htm which gives exact address and states that most of the Inn was demolished in 1876 to make way for the Examination Schools [AP 17/08/2006]
Chawn: OED online: 'A gap, cleft, chink, rift, fissure; a chine.', it seems unlikely that this is what the accession book is referring to, the geographical card catalogue says 'crown' and this seems more likely, however it doesn't seem very likely that chawn is a mistranscription of crown? [AP 22/01/2008]
Search terms: Vessel, Pottery, Figure, Writing, Inscription