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Earthenware love feast cup

Earthenware love feast cup, with two handles. Straight, slanting, sides with black line around the rim, lower body, waist and base. On one side a transfer print of the half length profile of John Wesley, looking left in the manner of Henry Edridge ARA (1769-1821) painting (1790). Wesley is wearing a black cassock and gown with a cravat and preaching bands coming from the top of the cravat. There is a semi circle around the image, made in a floral design with an inscription in it. On the reverse is an inscription, with a floral design underneath.

Category: love feast cup

Production Date: 1850-

Material Part: earthenware

Produced by: Staffordshire

Inscription:

- in the floral design around Wesley

The Revd John Wesley AM fellow of Lincn College Oxfd

Measurements:

whole
height 146mm
rim
diameter 121mm
base
diameter 127mm

Object Number: 2001-167

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