Design: Jugs as Morality, Taste, and Identity
Commemorative of Betrothal of Prince Albert Edward to Princess Alexandra
Manufactured objects such as these jugs were part of a British national conversation about design, taste, and class. Depicting well-known people in ceramics, like figures of royalty, contributed to that conversation as markers of identity and personal taste.
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Thomas Cooper of Hanley Commemorative of Betrothal of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (the future Edward VII), to Princess Alexandra of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, married at Windsor on 10 March 1863 1863 White stoneware, blue enamel 1774 |