Tudor German stoneware mug, 16th century

Social History (Museum of St Albans)

Tudor German stoneware mug, 16th century. These are the sort of mugs painted by Peter Brueghel in the hands of peasants. They became so cheap that the even superseded wooden mugs. Stoneware is a kind of pottery fired at a very high temperature so that the clay vitrifies and is no longer porous. Earthenware is porous unless it is glazed.German stoneware mug, 16th century

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