Mugs

Date1830-1860

Terms

Mugs
Ceramic
Staffordshire

Dimensions5.08 × 5.08 cm (2 × 2 in.)

Credit LineGift of Mrs. William Kussin, B. Alcott Pratt and F.W. Pratt in memory of their mother, Mrs. F. Alcott Pratt (1935)

Object numberC1170

DescriptionEarthenware. Design drawn in lavendar. Front reads: Franklin's Maxim's. On one side a shop scene: Silks and satins, Scarlet and Velvets put out the kitchen fire Always taking out of the meat tub & never putting in soon comes to the bottom. On other side a view of Cheap Shop: Buy what thou hast no need of & ere long thou wilt sell thy necessaries A great penney worth pause awhile Many are ruined by buying bargains.