Ceramic Mug Shots

The mug would have to be the most utilised item of functional ceramic wares. In an age of hi-tech and tough composite materials, it is remarkable that ceramic materials are still favoured for mugs, even though they are breakable and on the bulky side. Whether it is earthenware, bone china, porcelain or stoneware, it’s hard to beat the organic earthiness of a ceramic mug. With the caffeine connoisseurs, some people do over 30 cups a day, so I’d imagine a certain amount of bonding would be going on with their trusty ol’ coffee mug. The vehicle of the morning lifeline to get the day started and the companion of the evening hot chocolate to help close it down.

Newcomb College art pottery mug

Newcomb College Art Pottery Mug, c. 1900, decorated by Gertrude Roberts Smith with pitcher plants, high glaze with blue and green underglaze and base marked with Newcomb cipher

Polish rhino mug

An early neolithic mug found in a tumulus at Fischbeker Heide, Neugraben-Fischbek, Hamburg, Germany.

( Wikipedia )

Allison McGowan

( Tales of a Red Clay Rambler – Carter pottery )

Slab built, stamped greenware

( Myrtle and Lucy – fickr )

Hornsea Pottery Mug – mid century

Laurentian modernist mug - Mid Century

Abstract Bird Mug - AP Biot Vallauris

Art deco sugar bowl

( antique auctions now )

Red Ram Ceramic Mug - Art Studio MiroI Stani

All of the ceramic pieces are twice fired for strength and durability, with the second firing reaching over 1100 C degrees in an electric kiln.

( Etsy )

Back Bay Pottery

Bonnie Seeman

Bray ceramics – ” I apply and layer a variety of colored clay slips and glazes to achieve the surface on my pots, I use sgraffito and slip trailing techniques to add lines, circles, and squares onto the forms. “

( etsy )

Pueblo ceramic mug ( 900 – 1300 AD )

Charity Davis Woodard

Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Dameon Lynn – mug with saucer

Textured Slab Mug

( Clay Blog )

Denby Chevron mugs

( A LA Modern )

Dick Lehman

Dragonfly Coffee mug

Edinburgh Pottery Tankard/mug

Gillian Parke

Hand Built Ceramic Coffee Mug - Laura B. Cooper Ceramics

Herringbone Slab Built Stoneware Mug

JD Wolfe Pottery

Jennifer Falter Sgraffito mug

Jim Koudelka ceramic mug

John Roberts

( Mudfire Gallery 2011 )

Julie Covington

( Mudfire Gallery 2012 )

Ken Nyberg Sculpture

Lauren Bausch Original

Skull Mug – Little Art Monsterr

Mangum pottery

Chester The Cat Cofffee Mug

Mid Century Vintage Tiki mug

Pure trivia . The next time you indulge a coffee with a doughnut, you might be interested to know : the mug serves as one of the most popular examples of homeomorphism in topology. Two objects are homeomorphic if one can be deformed into the other without cutting or gluing. Thus in topology, a mug is equivalent (homeomorphic) to a doughnut (torus) as it can be reshaped into a doughnut by a continuous deformation, without cutting, breaking, punching holes or gluing.