F6460-001

Orange lustre mug Long Caption: Orange lustre mug, with a moulded foot, and brown-painted pottery frog inside. Decorated on one side with a hand-coloured transfer-print of a barquentine under sail on a green sea inscribed 'The Unfortunate London'. On the other side, the 'Mariner's Arms', a shield charged with a foul anchor and ropework in chief, surmounted by a crest of a ship and supported by two sailors holding Union flags. The 'London', built in 1864, was wrecked in 1865 the Bay of Biscay with the loss of over 300 lives. Credit line: © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London Object: ZBA4381 Artist: unknown Date: circa 1865 Medium: earthenware Size: 125 mm x 105 mm diameter Click here to buy a bespoke print of this image.