Child's Cup
date: label: date made
content: 1793
notes: label: Description
content: Raised cylindrical cup or mug with straight tapered sides, grooved D- or ear-shape scroll handle, and applied triple-reeded rim and foot ring; engraved on front "ML" in conjoined foliate script. Underside of flat bottom struck with six marks arranged in a circle around the centerpoint, clockwise from top left, a cross containing the raised serif letters "I / I•H / P" (maker's mark), a lion passant facing left in a rectangle (quality mark), a sovereign's head facing right in an oval (duty mark), a leopard's head crowned in a square, a raised serif "g" in a heart or indented oval (date letter), and a larger cross containing five lion passants facing left (city mark).
label: Description
content: Maker is John Hamstead and John Prince of York, England; used this mark, circa 1787-1794.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Jorvik
topic: label: Subject
content: Children
label: Subject
content: Beverages
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Roger Pryor Templin
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.59.0595
label: catalog number
content: 59.0595
label: accession number
content: 219034
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cup
label: Object Name
content: cup, child's
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 7/8 in x 3 5/8 in x 2 1/2 in; 7.3025 cm x 9.2075 cm x 6.35 cm