The practical book of early American arts and crafts . before its one-handledbrother. A heavier handle, of the same pattern as thetankard handle or the handle of contemporary mugs(v. mug by Cesar Ghiselin in one of the plate illustra-tions), was also used at the same time. Cans or cups of the 2d division included both thetype just described and also a variety,encircled with hoops or bands (v. plate illustration ofthe can immediately beneath the mug by Ghiselin). 144 EARLY AMERICAN ARTS AND CRAFTS An exact technical distinction may be drawn betweencups or cans and mugs by saying
The practical book of early American arts and crafts . before its one-handledbrother. A heavier handle, of the same pattern as thetankard handle or the handle of contemporary mugs(v. mug by Cesar Ghiselin in one of the plate illustra-tions), was also used at the same time. Cans or cups of the 2d division included both thetype just described and also a variety,encircled with hoops or bands (v. plate illustration ofthe can immediately beneath the mug by Ghiselin). 144 EARLY AMERICAN ARTS AND CRAFTS An exact technical distinction may 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 the other hand, was derived from a tank-ard and its essential points of difference from its cupor can relative consisted in its having, beaker-like andtankard-like, a flat bottom with moulded base and. Fig. 5. Can or Cup by Joseph Richardson, Philadelphia, 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 or cups, except in point of their immediatetankard ancestry—they were really small, lidless tank-ards—^whose straight sides, tapering inward toward thetop, and scroll handles they closely followed. Theywere made both with bands (Key V, 1 and 2, andGhiselin mug, plate illustration) and without were of the earliest type. A later banded typemay be seen in Key II, 15. SILVER; DOMESTIC AND ECCLESIASTICAL 145 From the middle of the eightenth century onward,mug and can types become so closely identified that aseparate classification would only cause confusion. Wefind a variety with splayed and moulded base, a swell-ing, bulbous
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