Every Mug Has a Provenance
The Collections
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Icons of Art
The works most people can already picture, and a few they should...
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Animals & Nature
Animals have been in art since the caves at Lascaux. What changes...
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Sky & Cosmos: Historical Star Charts
Long before anyone had been up there, the sky was mapped anyway...
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Landmark Images
Every mug in this shop carries an image with a documented source....
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Vintage Christmas Mugs: Art, History & Nostalgia
Christmas in art history is not one image but many — the...
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Pioneers & Explorers
They went first, and mostly without an audience. Orville Wright twelve seconds...
Gift Ideas
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The Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk, 1903 – Porcelain Art Mug
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Wilson Bentley: Snowflake, c. 1905 – Porcelain Art Mug
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Frederic Dorr Steele: Sherlock Holmes, 1903 – Porcelain Art Mug
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An Art Historian's Eye, Not an Algorithm
Dr. Walther Fuchs holds a doctorate from the University of Zurich and has spent three decades researching art, history, and culture. Every mug in this collection passes five exacting tests before it earns a place on your table.
New arrivals
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Georgia O'Keeffe: White Flower, 1929 – Porcelain Art Mug
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Timothy O'Sullivan: Sand Dunes, Carson Desert, 1867 – Porcelain Art Mug
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Piet Mondrian: Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue, 1927 – Porcelain Art Mug
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Piet Mondrian: Lozenge Composition, 1921 – Porcelain Art Mug
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Stories
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The Notice That Was Missing a Name
In June 1930 the Cleveland Museum of Art printed Georgia O'Keeffe's White Flower under a copyright notice of three words and no name. What is missing from that line decides...
The Notice That Was Missing a Name
In June 1930 the Cleveland Museum of Art printed Georgia O'Keeffe's White Flower under a copyright notice of three words and no name. What is missing from that line decides...
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How Henri Matisse Learned to Draw With Scissors
In 1941, a near-fatal surgery left Henri Matisse too weak to stand at an easel. What followed - a decade of cutting directly into painted paper - became the most...
How Henri Matisse Learned to Draw With Scissors
In 1941, a near-fatal surgery left Henri Matisse too weak to stand at an easel. What followed - a decade of cutting directly into painted paper - became the most...
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Why Henri Matisse Still Can't Cross the Atlantic
Matisse's late cut-outs became free to reproduce across the EU and UK in 2025. In the United States, the law is not so certain — and until we can say...
Why Henri Matisse Still Can't Cross the Atlantic
Matisse's late cut-outs became free to reproduce across the EU and UK in 2025. In the United States, the law is not so certain — and until we can say...
