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The English porcelain factories made bell-shaped mugs from the 1750s to the 1770s.<br><br><b>Materials & Making</b><br>The Bow factory, where the mug was made, manufactured a type of porcelain strengthened with ashes from animal bones. The result was a comparatively durable ceramic material, one that was suitable for drinking utensils and other utilitarian wares.<br><br><b>Trading</b><br>Bow porcelain was sold from a warehouse on the factory site and from London showrooms, but it could also be purchased at auction or from dealers in London and other cities. The factory also sold large quantities to merchants for export to the American colonies and elsewhere. Dragon-patterned blue and white wares are mentioned in the memorandum book of the clerk of one of Bow's London showrooms in 1756, when they were needed for one of the important London china and glass dealers.<br><br><b>Design</b><br>The dragon pattern was popular at several English porcelain factories, including Bow, Worcester, Lowestoft, Vauxhall and Liverpool, between the 1750s and the 1770s. The English factories probably originally copied the pattern from an early-18th-century Chinese dish.","physicalDescription":"Mug of soft-paste porcelain painted with underglaze blue. Bell-shaped body with a loop handle. 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