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Production: Unidentified Frechen pottery
Brown salt-glazed stoneware with bearded face on the front of the neck and below it, a rampant lion in an oval medallion
Grey-buff stoneware, thrown, with an applied handle and moulded relief decoration, coated with iron-brown wash, under mottled salt-glaze. The bottle has an elongated bulbous body contracting into a narrow cylindrical neck with cordons round the mouth, and a small loop handle with a spearhead -shaped extension on its lower end which rests on the shoulder. On the front of the neck there is a well-defined bearded face mask, and below it an oval medallion enclosing a rampant lion.
History note: An owner in Soham; Mr Morley, Cambridge from whom bought about 1904 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 12.7 cm
Height: 24.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century#
Circa
1600
-
1699
This bottle has the typical 'orange-peel' effect of salt-glaze over a brown wash. A bottle in the Victoria and Albert Museum has a comparable rampant lion medallion on its front (inv. 2034-1901)
Surface
composed of
iron-brown wash
( or 'dip')
salt-glaze
Base
Diameter 6.2 cm
Decoration
Exterior
Accession number: C.2022-1928
Primary reference Number: 73022
Old object number: 666
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Jug" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/73022 Accessed: 2024-11-25 01:14:36
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