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1887.1.409

Pottery vessel, Angel Inn mug. [MJD 11/11/2014]

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1887.1.409

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Collection type
Object
Description
Pottery vessel, Angel Inn mug. [MJD 11/11/2014]
Long description
Pottery vessel. Angel Inn mug. The vessel is a mid grey coloured ceramic with dark brown salt glaze. Angel figure in relief. Inscribed 'Edwd King'. A large chip is missing from the rim, the loop handle is intact. [MJD 11/11/2014]
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1878
Date collected
July 1878
Acquisition information
Transferred: 1886
Materials and processes
Material Pottery, Process Inscribed, Process Stamped, Process Moulded, Process Glazed, Process Fire-Hardened
Dimensions
Diameter 89 mm, Width: max 133 mm, Height 125 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1887.1.409
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]

There are several items from the Angel Inn site at Oxford in the founding collection see 1884.40.32-34, 1884.41.30. For general information on the Museum's collections of Oxfordshire archaeological material including lists of sites, grid references etc see Archaeological Material from Oxfordshire in the Collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum by Simon Thorpe (unpublished spiral bound report dated June 1996 (copy in RDF: Researchers File: Thorpe) [AP 13/8/99]

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]

http://www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/high/tour/south/angel_hotel.html: The above engraving shows the Angel Inn in the 1820s. In 1876 most of the inn was demolished to make way for the Examination Schools, but its coffee room (the two right-hand bays shown above) still survive as the shops now numbered 83/84 High Street, shown on the left. The bus depot retains its original ionic columns on the first floor, while the Grand Café has newer columns on the ground floor. In 1823 Thomas Gellett is listed in Pigot's Directory as the innkeeper here, and this is the name which is inscribed over the main entrance in the above engraving. The Angel must have suffered a drop in trade with the coming of the railways and closed in 1865. It was then converted into shops, most of which were demolished in 1876 to make way for the Examination Schools. This is presumably why the items were donated in 1878, after demolition [HA10/12/2015]

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