Ring flask, buff stoneware, with applied handle, incised and applied moulded relief decoration, painted in cobalt-blue and manganese-purple, and salt-glazed. A separate, freely-moving ring is threaded below a mask, applied just below the lip.
History note: Not known prior to donor
Given by Dr and Mrs Glasscock
Method of acquisition: Given (2023) by Glasscock, Robin E.
19th Century, Late-20th Century, Early#
C.
1880
-
1910
Westerwald stoneware is a general term applied to cobalt-stained, salt-glazed utilitarian pottery that has been made since the 1500s in the Kannenbäckerland, or ‘Jug-Baking Country’— a small region of western Germany to the east of the Rhine, situated in the southwestern portion of the Westerwald mountain range. Known for its reliability and authenticity, it was traded globally until the later eighteenth-century, when it began to struggle to compete with other ceramics, most notably European porcelain. However, various technical innovations, including the introduction of ironstone in 1864, and the adaptation of mould-making technology after 1873, transformed the industry, allowing Westerwald wares to be made in moulds previously carved in intaglio with the relief motif, so that the vessel came out of the mould already complete with the decoration in relief moulded. This enabled production at a larger scale, which entirely reinvigorated this ceramic tradition. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, many Westerwald makers produced revivalist and historicist stoneware, copying a range of historic styles, including Renaissance and Baroque (as seen here).
Decoration
composed of
cobalt oxide
manganese oxide
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
grey Stoneware
Inscription present: Gerz factory mark
Accession number: C.1-2023
Primary reference Number: 280294
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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