The practical book of early American arts and crafts (1916)
Eberlein, Harold Donaldson, McClure, Abbot, Bainbridge, Mabel Foster · Philadelphia : Lippincott · leaf 199
be drawn betweencups or cans and mugs by saying that the cup or canhad a rounded bottom, stood upon a splayed, mouldedor reeded base and had sides shaped either much or little—either a slight, beaker-like flare (Key II, 14) or a pro-nounced contour with pear-like bellying (Key V, 6 and7). A mug, in… … Fig. 5. Can or Cup by Joseph Richardson, Philadelphia, 1796.C. Hartman Kuhn Collection. Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art. straight sides, either tapering tankard-like toward thetop or perpendicular (Key V, 1, 2 and 4). Mugs, to all practical intent, however, were identicalwith cans…
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