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Maker(s)
Production:
Unidentified Frechen pottery
Entities
Categories
Description
Brown salt-glazed stoneware with applied bearded face mask on the front of the neck, and a rosette below
Grey stoneware, thrown, decorated with applied moulded reliefs, coated with iron-brown wash and salt-glazed. The jug has a bulbous body, contracting into a tapering cylindrical neck, with cordons at the top, and a small loop handle with a tail below its lower end. Applied to the front of the neck is a bearded mask, below which is an applied oval medallion enclosing an eight-petalled flower with spots between the petals.
Notes
History note: An unknown owner in Stanstead, Essex; bought in Cambridge in 1893 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Legal notes
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Measurements and weight
Diameter: 14.3 cm
Height: 21.3 cm
Place(s) associated
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Frechen
⪼ Rhineland
⪼ Germany
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Dating
17th Century#
Circa
1600
-
1699
Note
A relief motif similar to the one below the mask is on C.2020-1928.
This is a typical example of the thousands of brown salt-glazed stoneware bottles decorated with bearded masks which were imported into England from the Rhineland during the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Components of the work
Surface
composed of
iron-brown wash
( or 'dip')
salt-glaze
Base
Diameter 7.7 cm
Decoration
Handle
Materials used in production
grey
Stoneware
Techniques used in production
Throwing (pottery technique)
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.2019-1928
Primary reference Number: 311395
Old object number: 664
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Wednesday 20 July 2022
Updated: Tuesday 9 August 2022
Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
