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Mug
Earthenware mug with silver lustre on the rim, base and handle, with a silver lustre flower on either side. It is transfer-printed in black with an oval portrait of Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson (1758-1805) after Daniel Orme, with ships in the background and trophies below, inscribed on a ribbon above 'ENGLAND EXPECTS THAT EVERY MAN WILL DO HIS DUTY' below 'ADMIRAL NELSON' and surrounded by a laurel wreath beneath the portrait 'VICTORY.'
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Object Details
| ID: | AAA4821 |
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| Collection: | Decorative art |
| Type: | Mug |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Unknown |
| Events: | French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile, 1798; Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805 |
| Date made: | circa 1806 |
| People: | Nelson, Horatio |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Caird Fund. |
| Measurements: | Overall: 95 x 130 x 95 mm |